First, city officials should encourage residents to separate compostable and recyclable material at the source in the residential households of Chinese cities. However, the reality is that Chinese households predominantly dispose these types of HHW together with compostable and recyclable material (Tai et al., 2011). Suzhou has demonstrated poor performance in this area as documented by interviews with officials representing the Suzhou Environmental Sanitation Administration Agency (SESAA). This practice has a detrimental effect on the implementation of composting and recycling. For instance, compostable and recyclable material account for 63.20% and 20.09% of the HSW stream, respectively, whereas the HHW percentage is as low as 2.23%. If the HSW is not sorted in residential households, then 63.20% of compostable and 20.09% of recyclable material will be contaminated by the 2.23% of HHW. Thus, it is crucial to initiate programs to advocate and enforce the separation of HHW from HSW at the source (residential households). The separation of HHW from HSW needs to be observed as a more important practice in Chinese cities.