China establishes a complete quality standard system for imported waste raw materials

According to Wang Xin, Director of Inspection and Supervision Department of China's AQSIQ, China has established a complete set of laws and regulations for the inspection and quarantine of imported waste materials and quality standards for imported waste raw materials. The catalogue management of imported solid wastes was implemented, and the entire process of importing waste raw materials was supervised.

Wang Xin made the above statement when he was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the newly amended "The People's Republic of China Import and Export Commodity Inspection Act."

In March and June 2011, the inspection and quarantine staff in Ningbo, Zhejiang, intercepted 8 and 20 pieces of **** in two batches of imported copper scrap. In response, Wang Xin said that after 10 years of gradual improvement of the import and export commodity inspection and supervision system, as well as the inspection and quarantine supervision model for imported waste raw materials, it has played an important role in intercepting these two batches of ***.

Wang Xin said that China strictly controls imported wastes. At present, it is only allowed to import 13 major types of waste, such as common waste paper, waste plastics, and scrap metal. At the same time, 12 categories of wastes are also listed in the banned imports list. Into the restricted import directory.

Wang Xin said that last year, of the 267 batches of unqualified waste raw materials that were detected by China's inspection and quarantine agencies, 24 batches of *** were entrained. In addition, there are a large number of domestic waste, medical waste and prohibited imports of used mechanical and electrical products, radioactive exceeded.

Wang Xin said that the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in accordance with the provisions of the Commodity Inspection Law and its implementation regulations, will, as appropriate, adopt the deregistration certificate for foreign suppliers and domestic consignees importing substandard wastes, issue early warnings and tighten inspections, and cancel the inspection qualifications. , fines and other administrative penalties.

Wang Xin said that although the average unqualified rate of waste raw materials detected by inspection and quarantine agencies at various ports was only 0.21% in the past decade, waste materials are widely sourced and the collection process is complex. Inevitably, there are incompatible environmental pollutants and external harmful substances. Problems such as biology and infectious disease vector organisms.

Regarding the question of why China may allow import of these wastes because of serious problems in the import of waste raw materials, Wang Xin said that imported waste can, to a certain extent, make up for the relative inadequacy of China's forest resources and mineral resources.

Wang Xin said that through the continuous strengthening of supervision and management and work, the quality of imported waste materials in China has been steadily increasing. The unqualified rate of waste environmental protection safety from 2004 to 2011 is almost the next level in a year, and it has been from 2002. Over 0.60% of the year dropped to 0.07% in 2011.