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China to enforce new standards for
foreign waste imports from March
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 [January 11, 2018]
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will
enforce new standards governing imports of 11 types of foreign solid
waste from Mar. 1, the ministry of environmental protection said on
Thursday.
The move, which follows China's notification to the World Trade
Organization (WTO) last July that it would stop accepting shipments of
rubbish in its campaign against "foreign garbage", sets new thresholds
for impurities in imports of waste such as smelt slag, scrap paper and
scrap metal.
The impurity thresholds include 1 percent for non-ferrous metal and just
0.5 percent for paper, ferrous metals and waste electric motors, the
Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) said in November.
The BIR had proposed Mar. 1 as the date for the new standards to take
effect.
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A driver steers a lorry laden with bags of plastic bottles across a
recycling yard at the outskirts of Beijing, China, August 19, 2016.
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In a statement on its official Wechat account, the ministry also
said it would tighten control of radioactive contaminants in the
imported waste.
(Reporting by Tom Daly and Muyu Xu; Editing by Christian
Schmollinger and Clarence Fernandez)
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