Pesticide industry ushered in a year of policy examination

The "three wastes" in the pesticide industry generate a large amount and cover a wide range
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From the end of this year to next year, a series of influential policies and regulations will be issued intensively for the pesticide industry, and enterprises will face increasing pressure on environmental protection
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Pesticide companies should pay close attention to the progress of relevant laws and regulations while paying attention to their own production and operation, and accelerate the realization of green and sustainable development, so as not to fall into a passive situation
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This is what a reporter from China Chemical Industry News learned from the Fifth National Pesticide Industry Environmental Technology Exchange Conference held in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province from April 12 to 13
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Li Zhonghua, vice president and secretary-general of China Pesticide Industry Association, said that the implementation of the new "Environmental Protection Law", known as the most stringent in history, has made environmental protection an insurmountable red line, and pesticide production is particularly at the forefront
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The 13th Five-Year Development Plan for the pesticide industry released last year also proposed that the number of pesticide companies should be reduced by 30% by 2020, and the Ministry of Agriculture proposed to reduce it by 50%
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"How to reduce it? Now it seems that the most powerful
grasp is environmental protection .
" Li Zhonghua said that the newly revised "Pesticide Management Regulations" will be formally implemented on June 1 this year, and related supporting policies will also be published on September 1
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For pesticide companies, environmental protection is a high barrier.
They can rise to a new platform if they step past, and they will be eliminated if they fail
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Yang Chaofei, the former chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, interpreted the supporting policies of the new Environmental Protection Law
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He emphasized that after the promulgation of the new "Environmental Protection Law", on the one hand, it is necessary to gradually implement the environmental protection responsibilities of local governments in terms of policies
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At present, the central government has dispatched two groups of environmental inspection teams to conduct environmental inspections in some provinces and achieved good results.
By the end of 2017, full coverage of the central environmental inspections will be achieved
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On the other hand, it will greatly increase the cost of illegal sewage discharge
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For industrial companies, especially pesticide companies, it is not only necessary to meet the emission standards and to prevent unlawful emissions; it is also necessary to actively upgrade technology to eliminate outdated production capacity; moreover, it is necessary to strictly enforce environmental management and improve rules and regulations
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