Workers’ Daily: Don’t treat rock climbing and garbage picking as mere “scenery”

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According to media reports, rope climbers are a special type of worker within the sanitation team in Huangshan Scenic Area, Anhui. After receiving professional training, they climb up cliffs to collect trash, thereby helping to keep Huangshan beautiful. Some people consider them a unique “scenery” on Mount Huang. 　　As a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site as well as a World Geopark, Huangshan features rugged and steep mountain paths, with many cliffs and precipices. Rope dropers are ropes used for picking up trash; each one is 50 meters long and is a professional outdoor climbing rope. For ordinary cliffs, one rope is sufficient, but on Mount Huang, two ropes connected together are often needed to complete the task. Some rope runners descend the cliff as many as 8 times a day at most. It can be said that these wastes were picked up by the rope-laying workers at great risk to their lives. Many tourists call them the “beauticians of the cliffs,” and they take photos of their working environment as a “scenery.” 　　It has to be said that this unique “scene” is truly terrifying to watch. Facing this “scenery,” it is not enough for tourists to simply praise it and take photos; they should also take practical actions to reduce the workload of those who set up the ropes, and not littering is the greatest form of respect for them. 　　The National Day holiday is the best time for people to go on trips, but sanitation workers across the country often \"fear\" and \"worry\" about these holidays, as they usually mean an increased workload for them. During holidays, the number of visitors to tourist attractions increases, which speeds up the generation of waste. Coupled with the uncivilized behavior of some tourists, many sanitation workers end up with back and neck pain as well as dizziness after a day’s work. It is not hard to imagine how difficult and dangerous it must be for those who lower ropes on Mount Huangshan. 　　Sanitation workers keep the cities clean and scenic areas beautiful 365 days a year. Statistics show that the amount of trash cleaned up by sanitation departments during holidays is dozens or even hundreds of times higher than usual. While these figures reflect the efforts of sanitation workers, they also remind us whether anything can be done to reduce their workload Take the rope workers on Mount Huangshan as an example: do some tourists really have to throw trash over the cliffs? Is it because there aren’t enough trash bins provided by the scenic area, or do people think it’s the most convenient to just throw things away? To what extent does the workload of rope operators stem from the uncivilized behavior of tourists? 　　It is everyone’s responsibility to protect the environment; a clean environment and beautiful scenery require joint efforts from all of us to maintain. As tourists, we should understand the hard work of sanitation workers. We should start with ourselves and with small actions in our daily lives, by not littering. Even if there are limited trash bins in some areas and scenic spots, you can bring your own plastic bags to take the trash out of the area. It can only be described as a touching yet sad sight to see rope climbers scaling cliffs to pick up trash; what’s truly a more beautiful sight is when tourists refrain from littering and work together to protect the environment and ecology.