Since China's policy on recycling of waste plastics has tightened, it has already shaken the world's waste disposal model. Today's major media, associations have proposed the Basel Convention, and even some countries propose to amend the international convention, intended to broaden the constraints. Content. It is not difficult to see that environmental pollution has threatened more and more countries, and countries have paid more attention to the environment than ever before.
Referring to the Basel Convention, the frequency of recent occurrences is relatively high. The Union has established the national convention under the original science. Originally known as the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the United Nations Environmental Plan of March 22, 1989 The agency signed in Switzerland, and 186 countries have signed the convention. China signed the convention on March 22, 1990.
This International Convention is intended to control the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous wastes. It refers to hazardous wastes and is generally considered to be one or more of the characteristics of explosive, flammable, corrosive, chemically reactive, ecotoxic and infectious. Characteristics of productive and domestic waste. These hazardous wastes mainly include waste, waste water, waste gas, waste, etc., containing a variety of hazardous waste mainly to waste paper, waste plastics and used daily necessities. It is called hazardous waste. Because these are extremely harmful to the environment and human health.
Basel Convention recommends new requirements for waste plastics
Some time ago, the Norwegian government submitted a proposal to amend the Basel Convention. One of the proposals added a new requirement for waste plastics. It is recommended to control the waste of plastics and mixed plastic materials, as well as mixed waste containing plastics, including micro-plastics. By explicitly incorporating plastic waste into the scope of the Basel Convention, these waste streams can be controlled to avoid poor management of plastic waste. If the management of waste plastics is truly implemented, it is believed that the current phenomenon of marine littering will be improved and can be enhanced. The traceability of waste plastic pollution can be more controlled and less illegal dumping of plastic waste.
What impact will the amendment have?
The current Basel Convention waste plastics are allowed to be transboundary, mainly determined by the policies of the importing and exporting countries. For example, China will completely ban the import of waste plastics after 2019, and countries like Matai Yue are also collecting Tight, Japan and South Korea are still importable, so the import and export issues in the later period will need to meet the national policies and laws.
Once the amendment is passed, the transboundary movement of waste plastics has changed, requiring that the parties to the Basel Convention will not be able to transfer waste plastics at will, while for non-Basel parties, such as the United States, most countries no longer accept waste plastics. After the import, its output and later disposal problems will be no small test.
At present, the policies of various countries are constantly tightening, and the control of international conventions is gradually increasing. At the same time, whether the proposal can pass the issue has become a concern of everyone. Jin Lianchuang believes that the current situation of the treatment and transfer of international waste plastics There are still some. Mainly because of the implementation of China’s ban on waste, the amount of waste transferred to Southeast Asian countries has increased linearly. However, these countries have limited processing capacity, and countries such as Ma Taiyue have some confusion in the waste management policy, and the policy has been in a period of entanglement. Countries are developing or revising waste management policies to make them more responsive to their development stages. At this time, the introduction of waste plastics into the scope of control will reduce existing problems in many countries and will force the transformation of waste recycling industries in various countries. upgrade.