"National Hazardous Waste List (2021 Edition)" released

Global Coatings Network News:

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Transport and the National Health Commission have revised and released the " National Directory of Hazardous Waste (2021 Edition) "

Regarding discarded hazardous chemicals, one is to further clarify the scope of discarded hazardous chemicals included in hazardous waste environmental management.
Not all hazardous chemicals in the "Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals" have environmental hazards, and discarded hazardous chemicals cannot simply be equivalent to hazardous wastes, such as "liquid oxygen" and "liquid nitrogen" that only have physical hazards of "pressurized gas" Hazardous Chemicals.

The second is to further clarify the requirements for the inclusion of waste hazardous chemicals in hazardous waste environmental management.
After some flammable and explosive hazardous chemicals are discarded, their hazardous chemical properties have not changed; it is difficult for regulatory authorities to define whether hazardous chemicals are discarded.
Therefore, the "List" specifically proposes to "declare discarded by the owner" for discarded hazardous chemicals, that is, the owner of hazardous chemicals should declare to the emergency management department and the ecological environment department for discarding.
The "3·21" accident in Xiangshui was caused by the company neither stabilizing waste hazardous chemicals into hazardous waste environmental management in accordance with relevant national standards, nor reporting to emergency management departments and ecological environment departments, evading supervision and causing serious problems.
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It is reported that since the "National Directory of Hazardous Wastes" was first released and implemented in 1998, it has undergone two revisions in 2008 and 2016 and has been gradually improved, which has played a positive role in the environmental management of hazardous wastes in my country.

Attachment download: "National Hazardous Waste List (2021 Edition)"