GUANGZHOU: Construction of a major garbage incinerator in this southern metropolis will not begin until environmental assessments of the project are approved, officials said yesterday.

The decision followed public feedback on the project.

"We will also organize a series of activities to promote awareness of the incinerator," Ye Zhiwen, deputy director of the Panyu district urban landscape bureau in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, told a press conference yesterday.