Wood waste will be banned from the end of 2018

There are new changes in the list of prohibited solid wastes imported from China. Since the end of 2018, 32 solid wastes, including scrap hardware and wood waste, have been gradually adjusted to prohibit imports.
Liu Youbin, a spokesman for the Ministry of ecological environment, introduced at a press conference on the 19 day. The Ministry of ecology, the Ministry of Commerce, the national development and Reform Commission and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued a bulletin on the adjustment of the catalogue for the management of imported wastes, which will be used for waste hardware, waste ships, waste automobile press parts, smelting slag and industrial waste plastics. 16 kinds of solid waste are adjusted to prohibit import and be implemented since December 31, 2018; 16 solid wastes, such as stainless steel scrap, scrap of titanium, wood waste and so on, have been adjusted to prohibit import from the year of December 31, 2019.
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In July 2017, China issued a “plan for the implementation of the reform of the import and export management system for the entry of solid wastes into the entry of foreign refuse”, which clearly put forward a classification and readjustment of the import solid waste management catalogue, and gradually reduced the type and quantity of the import of solid waste.
At the end of 2017, he said that China has adjusted 4 kinds of solid waste, such as waste plastic, unsorted waste paper, waste textiles and vanadium residue, to be prohibited from import. This directory adjustment is another important reform measure to promote the reform of solid waste import management system.
Liu Youbin said that restricting and prohibiting the import of solid waste is a major measure to implement the new development concept, to improve the quality of the ecological environment, to ensure the national ecological security and the health of the people. The government work report has categorization of solid waste and refuse disposal, and strictly prohibit entry of foreign garbage as a priority work this year. Next, the Ministry of ecology and environment will work with relevant departments to ensure that all the reform measures are effective and strictly prohibit the entry of “foreign garbage”.