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New rules to restrict sales of construction wastes
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SHANGHAI will ban the transportation of construction wastes to other cities after the recent dumping incidents, while wastes that have been processed may get the nod but only after meeting a set of criteria that is currently being worked out, officials said yesterday.
Construction wastes that are sorted and decomposed properly and can be reused will be allowed to be sold outside the city, the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau said.
It said it was working on a reuse criteria and other relevant details on resource utilization to enforce the new rules.
The new regulations come after two cases of illegal garbage dumping in Suzhou and Nantong in Jiangsu Province came to light earlier this month.
On July 1, Suzhou police raided eight vessels carrying construction wastes to Jinting Town in Wuzhong District and detained 12 people. The wastes were transported from Huibin Wharf in Shanghai’s Jiading District and Yujidun Wharf in Changning District. More than 12,000 tons of garbage was dumped on an abandoned embankment on Taihu Lake.
In Nantong, one person was detained for illegally transporting more than 2,000 tons of garbage from a Shanghai pier and dumping them in Haimen.
Wastes in both the incidents were to be used for landfill.
Previously, construction wastes could be moved out of Shanghai after registering with the authorities. Household garbage, however, is banned from being sold in other cities.
“Construction wastes that meet certain reuse criteria can be turned into resources, and there is a market demand for it with the urbanization of cities,” said Xu Zhiping, director of the environmental sanitation division of the bureau.
They are mainly used for land reclamation and greenery projects in Shanghai. Neighboring provinces like Zhejiang and Jiangsu also use them for similar purposes, he said.
The bureau will reestablish a complete sorting and resource utilization system based on categories, like construction muck and decoration wastes, and promote their resource utilization in the city.
The bureau said for every square meter of demolition work, about one ton of construction wastes are produced. About 100 million tons of construction wastes were handled in the city last year.
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