Hengyang Hazardous Waste Disposal Center is located in Gucheng Village, Hongshan Town, Hengyang County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, which is a provincial-level hazardous waste disposal project uniformly planned by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the State in the whole country, and only two of them are in Hengyang and Changsha in Hunan.
Hengyang Hazardous Waste Disposal Center is responsible for the disposal of medical waste in Hengyang city and hazardous waste in five cities in Hunan province, with an annual disposal capacity of about 80,000 tons. It covers a total area of 300 acres and is designed to handle 36,400 tons of hazardous waste and medical waste annually. Among them: 0.5 million tons of incineration, 0.6 million tons of physical and chemical treatment, 19,400 tons of safe landfill, 0.6 million tons of comprehensive recycling. Main construction projects: new collection and transportation system, hazardous waste and medical waste temporary storage, comprehensive recycling and utilization of treatment workshop, physical/chemical workshop, stabilization/curing workshop, incineration workshop, complete landfill, wastewater treatment station and other utility rooms, auxiliary facilities, etc., planning.
Hengyang Hazardous Waste Treatment Center to undertake the Hengyang and southern Hunan industrial, medical and other hazardous waste disposal, the use of incineration, landfill, curing comprehensive utilization of advanced technology, designed to handle 36,000 tons of hazardous waste per year, Hengyang Hazardous Waste Treatment Center, with a total investment of 160 million yuan, two years of construction work, the operating period of 25 years, 60% of the project funds invested by the state, 40% by Beijing Ltd. and Shanxi Huanji Environmental Protection Technology Company Limited*** with the investment. After the completion of the project, it can effectively solve the hazards of medical waste in Hengyang and the hazards of industrial waste in southern Hunan, prevent the spread of diseases and benefit the society.
As of 2010, Hengyang has 46 medical institutions above the county level, with a daily output of 6.907 tons of medical waste; 228 township hospitals, with a daily output of 1.628 tons of medical waste. 2005, Hengyang City Health Bureau, Hengyang City Environmental Protection Bureau entrusted the Yanfeng District Yannan Medical Waste Recycling and Treatment Center, as a temporary disposal institution before the completion of Hengyang City Hazardous Waste Disposal Center Since 2005, Hengyang Health Bureau and Hengyang Environmental Protection Bureau have entrusted Yannan Medical Waste Recycling and Treatment Center in Yanfeng District, as a temporary disposal organization before the completion of Hengyang Hazardous Waste Disposal Center, to be in charge of disposing of medical wastes from all medical institutions in urban areas of Hengyang City and urban cities and towns in the counties, and in June 2010 Hengyang City took the lead in setting up Hengyang City Solid Waste Management Station as a specialized management organization in charge of supervising the city's industrial solid waste and medical wastes. Up to now, there has been no pollution accident caused by medical waste in Hengyang City.