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Transfer of hazardous waste in China has been managed according to the Measures for the Management of Hazardous Waste Transfer Manifests since 1999. To meet the new requirements set in the revised Law on Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste (2020) that the transfer of hazardous waste shall be managed throughout the whole process in a more efficient manner, it was revised and renamed as the Measures on the Management of Transfer of Hazardous Waste (hereinafter referred to as Measures). The consultation version of it was published on October 21, 2020 for public comments (Chemlinked news)[1]. The new Measures[2] was published on November 30, 2021, and will take effect on January 1, 2022.
Compared with the 1999 version, the new revision includes the following major improvements:
Clarifying the general responsibilities of relevant parties in the transfer of hazardous waste, including transferors, shippers, carriers and recipients, as well as the management requirements throughout the whole process.
Advocating the short-distance transfer of hazardous waste, to avoid large-scale and long-distance transportation as much as possible.
Strengthening the information management of hazardous waste transfer by promoting the monitoring and information traceability in the collection, transfer, and disposal of hazardous waste.
Optimizing approval services in trans-provincial transfer of hazardous waste by simplifying the application materials and approval process to improve the efficiency.
In addition, for the management of the hazardous waste transfer manifests, there are new and refined requirements:
Information technologies will be leveraged to promote the use of electronic transfer manifests across the country. In the transfer of hazardous waste, electronic transfer manifests shall be applied for via the national hazardous waste information management system. If the electronic transfer manifest is unavailable due to special reasons, the paper manifest can be used instead, while the electric one still needs to be kept in the information system within ten working days after the transfer is completed.
The data of electronic transfer manifests shall be kept in the information system for at least ten years, to disclose information on the prevention and control of hazardous waste transfer-related pollution.
The national unified number is assigned to hazardous waste transfer manifests via the national hazardous waste information management system.
One hazardous waste transfer manifest can be used for the transfer of more than one type of hazardous waste. If hazardous wastes are not transferred by vehicles (ships or other means of transportation), and cannot be measured on a per-time basis, the transferors and recipients should include information on the type, weight (quantity), form, and hazardous characteristics of the hazardous waste transferred every day in the relevant ledger records, and fill in and apply hazardous waste transfer manifests in accordance with relevant requirements.
