Abstract: As a global megacity in the world, Shanghai is on its way to building itself into a global science and technology innovation center. Accordingly, the generation of garden waste in Shanghai continues to increase. The resource utilization of garden waste is an important boost for Shanghai to build a “green”, “low-carbon” and “waste-free” city under the strategy to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality. To break the bottleneck of garden waste utilization in Shanghai, The status quo of garden waste generation and resource utilization, together with the challenges were introduced. The experiences of the resource utilization of typical urban garden wastes in the world were summarized. The systematic problems of garden waste resource utilization in Shanghai were discussed, and system optimization suggestions on resource utilization of garden waste in Shanghai were proposed from both management and technical strategy levels.

Key words: Shanghai, garden waste, resource utilization, countermeasures