What new signals are released by the new provincial solid waste policy?

Source: China Environmental News

The hazardous waste disposal market has continued to be hot in the past two years, attracting a large number of enterprises to join the industry, but the industry still has large risks and is in urgent need of regulation. In this regard, the state and various provinces and cities are regulated in the form of laws and policies. In addition, hazardous waste disposal places high demands on cooperation between local governments, fine management of government functions, scientific management of enterprises, risk prevention and control, and disposal modes.

With the continuous advancement of pollution prevention and control, especially this year's "disposal action 2018", solid waste pollution prevention has increasingly become the focus of local environmental protection work.

Since the beginning of this year, nine provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) have issued more stringent policies and measures aimed at the prevention and control of solid waste pollution, and put forward specific targets and opinions on the prevention and control of solid waste in the next few years.

Through the analysis of the solid waste industry service platform, these new policies have some common points: First, vigorously improving the hazardous waste disposal capacity has become the top priority of the future prevention and control work in the provinces; second, the cement kiln co-disposal of hazardous waste has become a multi-province (municipality, The construction focus of the autonomous region; the third is about the inter-provincial cooperation in the disposal of hazardous waste. At present, the provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) have different views and tend to formulate corresponding plans according to their own conditions.

In April this year, the Guangdong Provincial Environmental Protection Agency issued the “Three-Year Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution (2018–2020)”, becoming the first province to regulate solid waste this year. With the development of the “Demolition Action 2018” of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Shandong, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and Henan also issued prevention and control plans in August and September; October-November became the peak period of policy release, Anhui, Qinghai, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Chongqing and other provinces and cities have successively issued new policies. Frequent policies indicate new developments in the solid waste industry, and the industry pattern will usher in a new round of adjustment.

Improve the ability to dispose of hazardous waste into the focus of the province

While all localities are proposing to speed up the construction of disposal facilities, they also encourage solid waste, especially key enterprises with large amounts of hazardous waste, to build their own waste treatment and disposal facilities.

The problem that the solid waste treatment facilities do not match the production volume and the existing disposal capacity is difficult to meet the actual disposal needs is the main situation facing the prevention and control of solid waste pollution in various provinces. In particular, the amount of industrial solid waste generated continues to increase, and the disposal and disposal of solid waste such as hazardous waste, medical waste, and sewage treatment plant sludge has not been fundamentally solved. In addition, the solid waste management capacity is very weak, and the prevention and control of solid waste pollution in various provinces Both face a severe situation.

Therefore, in the provincial policy documents, improving the capacity building capacity has become the primary task.

Taking Chongqing as an example, according to the “Chongqing Hazardous Waste Centralized Disposal Facilities Construction Plan (2018-2022)”, the amount of hazardous waste generated in Chongqing will reach 910,600 tons in 2022, an increase of 50.51% over 2017; the city is expected The amount of fly ash generated from domestic waste incineration is 169,400 tons; the amount of medical waste generated in the city is expected to be 39,000 tons, an increase of 83.96% over 2017. Faced with a continuous increase in the amount of hazardous waste generated, a large gap in disposal capacity has become a prominent problem. In 2022, Chongqing expects the demand for hazardous waste disposal capacity to be 574,900 tons (excluding comprehensive utilization), of which the centralized disposal capacity gap is 457,900 tons (including 169,400 tons of waste incineration fly ash disposal capacity).

In other areas such as Guangdong, the situation is similar. In the face of increasing solid waste generation, local governments are proposing to speed up the construction of disposal facilities. At the same time, they also encourage solid waste, especially key enterprises with large amount of hazardous waste, to build their own waste treatment. Disposal facility. At the same time, Guangdong and other places have also put forward new initiatives such as deepening the reduction and recycling of solid waste, mandatory classification of domestic waste, and internal volume reduction and reduction of sewage treatment plants, focusing on reducing the amount of solid waste generated. Gradually transfer.

Collaborative disposal of cement kiln has received multi-site policy support

Cement companies interested in transformation and development choose collaborative disposal as a breakthrough to enable them to develop rapidly.

In terms of improving the comprehensive utilization level of industrial solid waste, cement kiln co-processing solid waste has become a hot topic. In this round of local policies, many provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have expressed clear support and encouragement for this technical route.

For example, Jiangsu Province, which is striving to optimize the layout of solid waste disposal facilities in various districts and cities, “strengthously promotes the coordinated disposal of existing industrial furnaces” and “coordinates planning and accelerates the construction of centralized disposal facilities” is included in the “Jiangsu Province”. Provincial Plan for the Construction of Hazardous Waste Centralized Disposal Facilities. In addition to proposing measures to increase positive publicity, strengthen financial support, and study the establishment of a coordinated price policy to eliminate market and institutional bottlenecks, it also provides for the joint disposal of cement kilns in Nanjing, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Changzhou and Zhenjiang. facility.

According to statistics, as of the end of November, China has obtained 57 licenses for co-processing hazardous wastes in cement kilns, and a total of 49 comprehensive hazardous waste disposal projects with a disposal scale of 2.84 million tons/year. At present, the total capacity of China's incineration hazardous waste disposal is 6.34 million tons/year, cement kiln co-disposal has accounted for 45%, and traditional incineration process accounts for 55%. The scale of the two is relatively close. In 2017 and 2018, China's cement kiln co-disposal hazardous waste projects were added 19 and 26 respectively, with new additions of 1.04 million tons/year and 1.66 million tons/year respectively. Compared with the total number of projects in single digits in 2014-2016, China's cement kiln co-processing hazardous waste capacity has grown rapidly in the past two years.

The industry believes that the rapid development of cement kiln co-processing, first, with the improvement of relevant national standards and technical guidelines, the relevant technical system is becoming more and more complete, officially becoming the "new army" of environmental governance, and cement enterprises interested in transformation and development choose to co-dispose As a breakthrough, it has been able to develop rapidly. Second, with the continuous increase of national environmental governance, especially the rapid increase in demand for solid waste and hazardous waste disposal facilities, the technology of co-disposal of cement kiln is relatively short and the disposal capacity is welcomed. In addition, the industry generally believes that it is not excluded that individual cement production enterprises use cement kiln co-disposal projects to circumvent administrative measures such as production stoppages and production restrictions.

Dangerous waste disposal cross-provincial cooperation to be further broken

Different provinces have different views on this, either supporting encouragement or explicitly prohibiting it. For the time being, most provinces are cautious.

In recent years, there has been a dilemma in hazardous waste disposal. Due to the mismatch between the amount of hazardous waste generated and the disposal capacity, the excessive difference in regional disposal prices, and environmental risk control, the current cross-province transfer of solid waste, especially hazardous waste, is subject to more restrictions. Different provinces have different views on this aspect, either supporting encouragement or explicitly prohibiting it. For the time being, most provinces are cautious.

The government documents of Guangdong, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, and Qinghai did not explicitly mention the contents of inter-provincial cooperation in dealing with hazardous waste, but they can be classified as “neutral attitude/not indicated”; although the governments of Shandong and Chongqing have Mentioned, but limited in support, adopt the “near principle” for hazardous waste disposal, and encourage qualified districts and cities to implement cross-regional cooperation to dispose of hazardous waste, so as to achieve complementary treatment categories and capabilities.

The most clear attitudes are in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The "Three-Year Action Plan for Pollution Prevention and Control in Henan Province (2018-2020)" clearly states that hazardous waste business units mainly deal with hazardous wastes in the province and strictly control the amount of hazardous waste transferred from other provinces.

In the past few years, many governments have clearly stated their attitudes towards strict control of hazardous wastes in other provinces. In May 2016, Hebei Province in the “Notice of the Hebei Provincial Environmental Protection Department on Strengthening the Supervision of Hazardous Wastes” has stipulated that “strictly control the transfer of hazardous wastes into our province for storage or disposal. In principle, no use value and disposal costs are prohibited. Low waste chemicals such as waste acid, waste alkali, waste emulsion, etc. are transferred." In November 2017, Hunan Province issued the “13th Five-Year Plan for Environmental Management of Key Solid Wastes in Hunan Province”, in which the principle of “strict entry and strictness” also clearly stated that “strictly control the types and quantities of hazardous wastes transferred across provinces” And the flow, resolutely put an end to the transfer of hazardous waste outside the province to the storage and harmless disposal in Hunan Province."

On the whole, the provinces that have “prohibited/limited support” attitudes for inter-provincial cooperation in dealing with hazardous wastes account for the majority, but at the same time, there are some new changes in policies.

Not long ago, the Agreement on Transfer of Hazardous Wastes across Provinces and Cities signed by Sichuan and Chongqing broke the barriers to cross-regional cooperation, deepened the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, strengthened the joint supervision of the transfer of hazardous wastes across provinces and cities, and promoted Sichuan and Chongqing. The safe and timely disposal of hazardous wastes in the two places, the joint implementation of hazardous wastes across provinces and cities will jointly promote and enhance the management level of solid waste in the two places. The Sichuan Provincial Government also indicated that it will gradually strengthen strategic cooperation with neighboring provinces and cities.

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