Report
On the State of the Environment In China
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Solid Wastes
State
The total generation of industrial solid
wastes in China was 950 million tons in 2002, an increase of 6.5% than
that in the previous year. The discharge amount of industrial solid wastes
was 26.352 million tons, 8.9% less than that in the previous year. The
amount of industrial solid wastes for comprehensive utilization was 500
million tons at a comprehensive utilization rate of 52.0%, which was equivalent
to that in the previous year. The amount of hazardous wastes generation
was 10 million tons.
The cleared and transported domestic wastes in China were 136.38 million
tons, 1.2% more than that in the previous year. Among which, 74.04 million
tons were disposed in line with environmentally sound management, 5.6%
less than that in the previous year. The treatment rate of domestic garbage
was 54.3%.
Measures and Action
Environmental Management of Solid Wastes Import
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the State
Customs Administration, and SEPA jointly issued the 4th and 5th batches
of Inventory of Banned Products for Import, including 37 wastes categories,
such as used clothes, scrap tires and their shreds, and used electromechanical
facilities.
Environmental Management of Chemical Import and Export In
2002, 2741 Environmental Management Registration Certificates were verified
and issued for chemicals which were imported for the first time. So were
122 Registration Certificates for Import of Toxic Chemicals. 5417 Notices
on Approval of Import (Export) of Toxic Chemicals were verified and issued,
among which 4375 for import and 1042 for export. The registered amount
of import was 396,000 tons and that of export was 57,000 tons.
Municipal Environmental Sanitation and Cleaning By the end
of 2002, the area of cleaned street had added up to 2134.4988 million m2, including 344.07 million
m2 of machine-cleaned area, which account
for 16.1% of the total, an increase of 2.3% more than that in the previous
year. The amount of domestic wastes and excrement cleaned and transported
was 167.98 million tons. The domestic wastes and excrement in large- and
medium-sized cities were cleaned on a daily basis.