BEIJING: China has made progress in preventing solid waste pollution, said a report on the enforcement of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste.
All provincial-level regions in China have made their plans to advance waste sorting, stated the report submitted to the ongoing session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee for review.
Waste sorting covered nearly 95 percent of residential communities in 46 pilot cities across China by the end of 2020, noted the report.
In 2020, Chinese cities collected and transported 235 million tonnes of household refuse, and 99.7 percent of garbage underwent harmless disposal.
China’s capacity to deal with hazardous waste has continuously improved, the report said, and the country’s centralized hazardous waste disposal and utilization capacity exceeded 140 million tonnes per year by the end of last year.
The National Health Commission (NHC) will have multiple measures to improve the disposal of medical waste. These include revising the catalog to realize the scientific classification and disposal of clinical waste.
– The Daily Mail-China Daily News exchange item
