JINSHAN District will shut down construction “garbage hills” in two villages and build treatment plants to process and recycle the waste, the head of the district said yesterday.

The sites in Jiulong and Guangming villages in the southern district were set up temporarily to pile large amounts of garbage from the district’s demolition campaign against illegal structures, said district director Hu Weiguo.

But villagers complained to the city’s public service hotline about the unbearable smell in the scorching weather since other garbage was mixed into the piles.