Main ideas shown in the film
> solid waste being manually scavenged
> swill oil production
> Beijing is a city built on solid waste land fills
> consumption accelerates and nobody cares about the consequences
Conclusions:
> China is still a deeply unequal country, more so than other developed nations
> automated production must be balanced with automated solid waste recycling - manual waste segregation can never
keep up with the speed of highly efficient production powered by robots
and assembly lines
> it would be necessary to balance the movie with the situation in other nations e.g. Germany has dealt so far only with 1/3
of its solid waste dumps and most industrialized nations experienced similar periods of waste mismanagement during the 20th century 60-80ies, when consumption started to increase after WWII - China is not to be blamed, but to be supported to deal with these challenges