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Import plastic scraps to China to transfer from restricted to prohibited categoryImport plastic scraps to China to transfer from restricted to prohibited category |
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The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment on 19 April 2018 has decided to transfer 16 types of solid waste including waste hardware, waste ships, pressed parts for waste cars, smelting slag, and post-industrial grades of plastics waste that are currently listed under the ‘restricted imports’ category to the ‘prohibited imports’ category with effective starting 31 December 2018.
Following table listed details of the affected wastes:
Referring to the petrochemical industry, a majority of plastics waste come from post-consumer sources, which has been banned since 2017 and adding the post-industrial grades of plastics waste to the prohibited category would mean that no plastics waste shall enter China starting 1 January 2019.