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On January 15, 2020, the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department held a briefing on the import and export control of waste plastics by the waste plastic recycling industry
.
On January 15, 2020, the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department held a briefing on the import and export control of waste plastics by the waste plastic recycling industry
.
According to the Basel Convention in May last year, the regulations on the export of plastics from developed countries to developing countries were revised to "Because Hong Kong is a part of China, it is included in developing countries", so it is necessary to comply with relevant regulations and measures to limit the amount of waste.
Import and export
.
This ordinance was originally scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2021, but now it is implemented a year earlier to amend the ordinance, which is mainly to classify polluted and mixed plastic waste as hazardous waste
.
Secondly, because many countries in Southeast Asia are controlled by the import of waste from different EU countries, some industries have escaped EU export inspections through Hong Kong transfer containers, and even shipping companies only accept containers destined for Hong Kong because Hong Kong does not require a license.
Is the distribution center of Southeast Asia
.
In the future, the Hong Kong government will also require an application in this regard before it can be exported
.
For a long time, waste plastics exported from EU countries to Hong Kong must be processed in Hong Kong.
If they are to be re-exported, they must be declared in the "Annex VII" document at the time of export.
Factories produced in Hong Kong must also meet environmental protection requirements; production capacity and production process It should also be reported to the environmental protection department
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The Hong Kong government used to be relatively lenient, until the issue of plastic pollution was reported by TV stations and other media every day, and the public and voluntary groups were under pressure to complain every day that the government was incompetent and could not even manage waste.
How to talk about governance? Ultimately, the government’s attitude rather changed
.
Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have repatriated their imported household waste plastics to exporting countries such as the United Kingdom, EU countries, Japan, Australia and the United States for environmental pollution reasons
.
Environmental voluntary groups have also put pressure on the government from time to time, talking about why local waste plastics have not been handled properly, and they have gone to deal with imported waste
.
Of course, many people don't understand how bad the imported waste is.
It has to be sorted first.
The waste in Hong Kong must be systematically sorted to have the value of recycling.
Otherwise, the local recycling factory cannot process it into secondary materials due to the high sorting cost.
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There are quite a few countries that have implemented the revised Basel Convention in advance.
Australia has recently announced a complete ban on the export of unprocessed waste plastics starting from July 1.
As a result, many people in our industry need to transform
.
On the other hand, Hong Kong can save the environment damage by reducing the import of polluting household waste
.
