MEE Publishes a Hazardous Waste Management Working Plan for Soliciting Opinions

On the 7th of July, the Ministry of Environment and Ecology of China (MEE) published a notification of “Letter on Soliciting Opinions on the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Hazardous Waste Standardized Environmental Management Assessment Work Plan (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)”. This working plan was published to better enforce the law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes.

Under this working plan, the provincial environmental protection department will undertake the evaluation work, while MEE-SEE will stand by to randomly check the evaluations. There are two major changes in this draft. Firstly, regarding the standards for hazardous waste, the threshold for industrial hazardous waste has changed. In addition, the grading system has also changed. Now, the full score is 70, but companies may get bonus points or lose points based on their behavior.  

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