The piling-up of industrial solid waste occupies large amount of land and will cause secondary pollution to the air, surface water and ground water. It is part of the important contents of the total pollutant control in China to reduce the generation of industrial solid waste.

In 1999, the generation of the industrial solid waste in the whole country was 780 million tons, among which the generation of industrial solid waste at county level and above level was 650 million tons, accounting for 83.35 of the total amount. The total amount in the township and village enterprises was 130 million tons. The total industrial solid discharge amount was 38.81 million tons, among which, the discharge of the township and village enterprises was 27.26 million tons, accounting for 70.2% of the total amount. The amount of hazardous waste was 10.155 million tons, among which, the waste generated by the county level and above county level enterprises was 9.105 million tons, accounting for 89.7% of the total amount.

 

Treatment of White Pollution In 1999, the relevant department of the State Council conducted inspection on the white pollution treatment along the railways and the Yangtze River and in Tai Lake Basin. The collection system of solid waste of the passenger trains and vessels was established and the white pollution along the railways was preliminarily controlled.

Enhancing the Environment Management of Waste Import The relevant departments of the State Council have cleaned up the import of the seventh category waste (waste electric machines, waste wires and cables, waste metals and electric appliances) and reduced the number of the former 670 designated enterprises to 465 ones. Some enterprises violating the laws were punished and the management of the import of the seventh category waste was under regulation. The government has formulated measures of pollution prevention on the four kinds of pollutants caused by dismantling the imported waste vessels - waste oil, waste asbestos, domestic garbage and waste calcium carbide residue.

Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial Solid Waste Kept on Increasing In 1999, the rate of comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste in the whole country (including county level and above county level industrial enterprises and key township and village enterprises) was 45.6%, among which the rate of comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste at county level and above county level was 51.7%, with 3.4% over the previous year.

 

State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
Order No.5

Passed at the Ministers' Meeting on Specific Topics of SEPA hold on May 31,1999, Management Measures for Bills of Moving Hazardous Waste is hereby promulgated and comes into force as of the date of October 1st, 1999.

Enclosure:

Article 1.

The Measures is made in accordance with relevant provisions of Solid Waste Pollution Prevention law of the People's Republic of China for following purposes:
---To reinforce effectively supervision upon hazardous waste movement
---To put the Bills of moving hazardous waste in practice.

Article 2.

The Measures applies to all units carrying out activities of hazardous waste movement within the boundary of Peoples Republic of China.

Article 3.

The administrative authority of the State Council engaging environmental protection affairs shall take its responsibility to fulfil integrated management and supervision upon Bills of moving hazardous waste nationwide.

The environmental protection authorities at provincial or autonomous region level shall fulfil in their jurisdiction the management and supervision upon the bills in question.

The environmental protection authorities at municipal level shall fulfil the management and supervision upon the bills in question in their jurisdictional regions. In the case of in the municipalities directly under the central government, or in the regional administrative agencies, the environmental protection authorities under aforesaid government shall be responsible for specific management and supervision on the bills in question within their jurisdiction.

Aforesaid local government agencies hereinafter referred to " authorities" for short.

Article 4

The source unit of hazardous waste shall prepare and submit a movement plan for hazardous waste for approval in advance of any movement. Upon approval, the source unit shall apply for Bills of Moving Hazardous Waste to local environmental protection authorities.

The source unit shall notify the local authorities within three days prior to the date of moving, and simultaneity inform the authority in the destination of the expected date of arrival of the waste.

Article 6

The source unit of hazardous waste shall fill in relevant blanks in the bills in question according to the facts and seal on the bills. Upon receipt of the bills with the common seal of
The source unit, the transporter shall check and sign the bills, and keep the copy of the first sheet of the Bills for file. The second sheet of the bills will be sent to local authority, and the first sheet with other sheets of the bills will be enclosed with the hazardous waste by the transporter.

Article 7

The Carrier(s) of hazardous waste shall fill in relevant blanks under the carrier's name according to the facts. Carrier(s) and carry the hazardous waste safely to the place of receipt point specified in the Bills, and deliver the copy of the sheet No.2 of the Bill and other four pieces of sheets together with the hazardous waste to the accepting unit of the hazardous waste.

Article 8

The acceptor of the hazardous waste shall check the content of the Bills and commission the hazardous waste. The acceptor thereby fill in relevant blanks of the Bills according to the facts and seal on the Bills.

The acceptor of the hazardous waste shall deliver back the sheet No.1, the copy of Sheet No.2 to source unit within ten days as of the date of receiving the waste. The Sheet No.1 shall be kept by source unit for file, and the copy of sheet No.2 shall be sent within two days to local authority where the waste comes from. The sheet No.3 shall be delivered by the acceptor to the carrier for file. The sheet No.4 shall be kept by the acceptor for file and the sheet No.5 shall be sent within two days as of the date of receipt to the local authority where the waste arrive.

Article 9

When commissioning the hazardous waste, if the acceptor find any nonconformance with contents of the bill, with regard to the title, quantity, characteristic, shape, manner of packing of the real hazardous waste, the acceptor shall promptly report the nonconformance to local authority where the waste arrives, as well as the source unit of the waste.

Article 10

The Bill shall be retained for five years. If for the purpose of storing hazardous waste, the Bill shall be retained for a specified period as the storage life of the waste.

If the environmental protection authority believe that the bill needs to be retained for a longer period, the source unit, the carrier and the acceptor of the hazardous waste shall follow the decision of the authority and prolong the time of retaining the bill accordingly.

Article 11

The environmental protection authorities above municipality level have the right to inspect the operational status of the bill of moving hazardous waste. They can also entrust the authorities at county level to fulfil the inspection. The inspected units shall accept the inspection and report to the relevant authority the facts honestly.

Article 12

In the case of the intermodal of hazardous waste, the previous carrier of the hazardous waste shall deliver all the sheets of the Bill together with the hazardous waste to the successor carriers of the hazardous waste. The successor carriers accordingly shall check the contents of the Bill stated by both the previous carrier and the source unit. If everything is ok, the successor carriers can fill in the relevant column relating to itself and sign the bill. The copy of the sheet No.3 of the Bill signed by successor carriers shall be sent to the previous carrier for file. The last carrier of the waste shall keep the sheet No.3 of the Bill signed by the acceptor for file.

Article 13

Any relevant units that infringe this Measures with following behaviors shall be asked to take corrective actions in a given period and to be fined by local environmental protection authorities of above-provincially municipality level.
---fail to apply for and fill in the Bill as required.
---fail to use the bill as required.
---fail to submit as required the bill in the given period of time to environmental protection authorities
(--- fail to retain the bill for a specified period as required in the regulation -
-- refuse to accept the jurisdictional inspection of local environmental protection authorities with regard to the use of the Bill.

According to relevant provisions of Solid Waste Pollution Prevention law of the People's Republic of China , a unit which commits an offence referred to clause 1 ¡¢clause 3 of the last article is liable to a fine of less than RMB 50,000; the unit which commits an offence referred to clause 2 and 4, is liable to a fine of less than RMB 30,000; the unit which commits an offence referred to clause 5 of the last article, is liable to a fine of less than RMB 10,000.

Article 14

The Bills are designed by SEPA, and printed by local EPB at provincial level or by the EPB of the municipality directly under the center government.

The bill consists of five sheets with different colors: the white sheet (No.1), the red sheet(No.2), the yellow sheet(No.3),the blue sheet(No.4) and the green sheet (No.5)

The serial number of the five-sheet-Bill is formed of ten Arabic numerals. The primary and the second numerals constitute the code of administrative regions at provincial level. The third and the fourth numerals constitute the code of administrative division at provincially administered direct municipality level. The fifth and the sixth numerals constitute the code of categories of hazardous waste. The rest of four numerals are to be numbered in turn by the local EPB responsible for distributing the blank Bills in the areas where the hazardous waste to be moved out, according to the numerical order of the movement activities in question.

Article 15

The right of interpreting this regulation resides in SEPA.

Article 16

This regulation comes into force as of October 1st 1999.