About 120 thousand residents in Shanghai have been able to enjoy a cool summer after benefiting from the city's successful practice of turning waste into electricity.

The Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau says that over eleven thousand tons of garbage has been burnt up in the first eight months of this year and used to satisfy the electricity demand of local citizens, China Radio International reported Thursday.

To ease the electricity shortage this summer, the bureau has built a garbage processing factory to dispose of huge amounts of garbage in the city and turn it into energy.

Next year the factory should perform even greater garbage related feats, with the second phase of its construction due to be completed by the end of this year.

(Xinhua News Agency August 26, 2004)