China's Import of Wastes and Its Implications

China's Import of Wastes and Its Implications
Guo Dongmei
【期刊名称】《《中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）》》
【年(卷),期】2008(006)004
【摘要】The trade of wastes in the world has been increasing and China has become the largest importer of wastes. This paper examines the import trend of different wastes and finds out that the total import volume to China approved by the Chinese government keeps increasing and the illegal trade can not be banned despite repeated prohibitions; therefore, China is not only "a world factory", but actually "a global garbage dump". In order to well understand the implications of wastes import, this paper further analyzes the resource and environmental ef- fects and risks of different wastes imports as well as the strong driving force of wastes imports. Based on these detailed analysis and solid data, policy recommendations are put forward to reduce the demand for raw materials, to further strengthen the inspection of and supervision over the international trade of the wastes that can be used as raw materials by using the life cycle analysis and risk analysis, to improve the environmental standards and strengthen the disposal capacity, to re-export the raw materials produced from the imported wastes, to develop the long-term planning for the import of wastes and to promote international cooperation.
【总页数】5页(P36-40)
【作者】Guo Dongmei
【作者单位】Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy Ministry of Environmental Protection Beijing 100029 China
【正文语种】中文
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