Cleaning subway aerculean job

Cleaning subway aerculean job WITH one hand holding a dustpan connected to a long handle and two big tool bags hanging around the other shoulder, Zhu Xuezhen, a 49-year-old short-figured woman and sanitation worker on the local Metro, took small but quick steps like a cleaning robot on a Line 2 train in the Guanglan Road station yesterday afternoon. We also carry cleaning rags in our tool bags to clean the floor when the dumped drinks are just flowing everywhere. But given the short time allowed, it's a challenging task," Lu said, rubbing her sweating gray hair. You wouldn't want to hear it all," Zhu said with a mixture of scorn and embarrassment. Her fellow worker, a 52-year-old surnamed Lu, said the issue was especially bad during the morning rush hour. Metro officials said rubbish collected from trains running on an average local Metro line has risen to more than 100 kilograms per day, with one-third being food leftovers. And the number keeps soaring. "'Cleaning is your duty and that's why you are hired. "You just take your time. I really have to hurry up," Zhu told the reporter as she paced toward the end of the train. The littering has spurred increasing complaints from the public. "We run into everything on the trains now, even diapers directly placed on the benches and babies' excrements on the floor. The workers said holiday seasons always leave them with "nightmarish memories" not only because rubbish volume goes up but also because of frequent encounters with vomit from many holiday revelers. So just do your job!' Some riders said this to us when we tried persuading them to stop littering," she said. She swiftly moved across the crowd and nodded to a seated passenger, tipping him by gesture to move aside so that she could pick up a food package dumped on the window frame behind. Zhu was highly trained, but she still missed a half-eaten steamed bun lying in front of the nearby train gate, likely to pollute the shoes of the first incomer at the next stop. But still, their speed seemed far from sufficient to handle the heavy amount of waste dumped on the trains - mostly food and drink leftovers, plastic bags and advertising fliers. "Half-drunk packaged bean juice, all kinds of breakfasts and you name it. Their busy-paced work has not stopped people from littering, Lu noted. Cleaning subway aerculean job Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 01/03/2012