Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Urban Domestic Waste Classification and Treatment Facilities Development Plan”. The plan puts forward a goal. By the end of 2025, the utilization rate of urban domestic waste in the country will reach about 60%. ; The national urban domestic waste incineration capacity reaches about 800,000 tons/day, and the urban domestic waste incineration capacity accounts for about 65%; the national domestic waste classification collection and transportation capacity reaches about 700,000 tons/day, which basically meets the requirements of prefecture-level and above cities Demand for classified collection, classified transfer, and classified treatment of domestic waste.
Policy constraints and supervision have become stricter, and the solid waste disposal rate has risen slightly
In 2019, 196 large and medium-sized cities produced 1.38 billion tons of general industrial solid waste, 850 million tons of comprehensive utilization, 310 million tons of disposal, 360 million tons of storage, and 42 thousand tons of dumping. The comprehensive utilization of general industrial solid waste accounted for 55.9% of the total utilization, disposal and storage, and disposal and storage accounted for 20.4% and 23.6% respectively. Comprehensive utilization is still the main way to deal with general industrial solid waste. General industrial solid waste has been effectively used and disposed of.
Among the 196 large and medium-sized cities, the top 10 cities in terms of general industrial solid waste generation are Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, and Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province City, Benxi City, Liaoning Province, Yantai City, Shandong Province, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and Ankang City, Shaanxi Province. The total amount of general industrial solid waste generated by the top 10 cities is 370 million tons, accounting for 26.8% of the total amount of information released by the cities.
Solid waste imports declined
Statistics show that my country’s solid waste imports have increased sharply since the 1990s. Between 1995 and 2016, China’s annual waste imports soared from 4.5 million tons to more than 48 million tons. Take 2010 as an example, the country imported more than 48 million tons of solid waste, valued at more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. In 2012, the value of imported solid waste reached approximately US$40 billion. With the gradual implementation of the plan to ban the import of solid waste, the volume of solid waste imports has dropped significantly. As of November 15, the total volume of solid waste imports nationwide was 7.18 million tons, a decrease of 41% year-on-year.
Significant increase in the number of solid waste companies
With the support of policies, the registration volume of Chinese solid waste-related enterprises in my country has increased significantly. In 2015, the number of registrations of solid waste-related companies was only 2,500, and in 2017 it exceeded 5,000. In 2019, the number of registrations increased to 13,462, a year-on-year increase of 49.9%. In 2020, the “Guiding Opinions on Building a Modern Environmental Governance System” and the new “Solid Waste Law” were issued successively, which is beneficial to the solid waste treatment industry. In the first half of 2020, a total of 9800 solid waste-related companies were newly registered, a year-on-year increase of 63.3%.
Post time: Jul-16-2021