July 23, 2020, Dalian Customs seized 21.5 tons of foreign garbage is China's banned imports of solid wastes - nickel-containing waste aluminum-based catalysts or its extraction of vanadium, molybdenum after the nickel slag.
On July 23, 21.5 tons of imported solid wastes were seized by Dayaowan Customs under Dalian Customs. DaYaowan Customs officers in a declared name for the "calcined nickel oxide" imported goods for on-site inspection, found that the package for the blue-green powder solid, suspected of industrial slag, and then sampling for inspection.
The sample was analyzed for solid waste properties, and the actual goods were identified as "nickel-containing waste aluminum catalysts or nickel residue after the extraction of vanadium and molybdenum", which are solid wastes prohibited from importation in China.
Expanded
"Banning the entry of foreign garbage to promote the implementation of the reform of the import management system of solid wastes" in the program:
Article 4? Prohibit the import of solid wastes that pose great environmental hazards and are strongly reflected by the public.Before the end of July 2017, adjust the management catalog of imported solid wastes; before the end of 2017, prohibit the import of waste plastics from domestic sources, unsorted waste paper, and textile wastes, vanadium slag and other varieties.
Article 6? Raise the threshold of solid waste imports. Further tighten the standards, revise the "import of solid wastes as raw materials environmental protection control standards", tighten the entrainment control indicators. Issuance of "imported waste paper environmental protection management regulations", improve the import of waste paper processing and utilization of enterprise scale requirements.
Article 7? Improve laws and regulations and related systems. Increase the number of solid waste identification units and solve outstanding problems such as difficulties in identification. In due course, to bring amendments to the People's Republic of China *** and the State Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law and other laws and regulations, and raise the standard of penalties for smuggling of foreign garbage, illegal imports of solid wastes and other behaviors.
CCTV - Dalian Customs seizes 21.5 tons of "foreign garbage"