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Original title: Maximum personal fine of 500 for unsorted garbage
The “Guangdong Standard” for garbage classification was officially launched. The 26th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Provincial People’s Congress was held yesterday in Guangzhou and voted to approve the “Regulation on Urban and Rural Household Waste Management in Guangdong Province” (hereinafter, the “Regulation”). The “Regulations” state that if household waste is not disposed of in accordance with the classification regulations and the circumstances are dire, people will be fined between 100 and 500 yuan, and new regulations have been added to reward the reduction of the source of household waste through point exchange and other methods.
Reduce the use of disposable plastic products
The “Regulation” proposes the reduction of waste at the source, and popular governments at all levels should establish a mechanism for the reduction at the source of household waste covering production, circulation, consumption and other fields for promote the conservation and recycling of resources. E-commerce, food delivery, express delivery and other industries should adopt packaging methods that can be reused, are sufficient to protect products, and are conducive to resource conservation and green environment protection. Encourage the use of price discounts and other methods to guide consumers to use green packaging and reduced quantity packaging.
The “Regulation” also requires that the production, sale and use of non-degradable plastic bags and other disposable plastic products be prohibited and restricted in accordance with the law. Encourage and guide to reduce the use and actively recycle plastic bags and other disposable plastic products, and promote the application of alternative recyclable, easily recyclable and degradable products.
“Sorting and processing waste involves the entire process from start to finish. The middle end requires input and improvements from the government, and the early end depends on the cooperation of citizens, businesses and units,” said Lin Qing, deputy director of the Division. of Urban Construction of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
Chen Tingli, deputy director of the Department of Economic Regulation of the Legal Work Commission of the Permanent Commission of the Provincial People’s Assembly, stressed that in the revision of the Regulation, the chapter on “treatment at source” was added. Under the premise of guaranteeing the comfort of people’s lives, the growing number of express and take-out packaging was added. Responsibility for processing at source.
Do I need to bring my own toiletries in my travel accommodation? The “Regulation” proposed that “travel, accommodation and other industries should not actively provide disposable items in accordance with relevant national regulations” and “advocate for catering units not to actively provide disposable tableware to consumers” .
The maximum fine for mixed pickup and transportation is 500,000 yuan.
“The ‘Regulations’ are not only targeting cities, but also implementing garbage classification in rural areas,” Chen Tingli said. The “Regulation” proposes the implementation of household classification, village collection, city transfer and county treatment in rural household waste management. At urban-rural crossings, densely populated rural areas, and other places where conditions permit, an integrated urban-rural household waste management system should be established.
How to sanction infractions? This is a general concern of the public. The “Regulations” clarify that if any unit or individual does not dispose of household garbage in accordance with the classification regulations, the environmental sanitation department of the town government at the county level or above will order the correction; if the circumstances are serious, a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 yuan will be imposed on the person. A fine of 100 to 500 yuan will be imposed.
It is worth mentioning that, in response to the mixed collection and mixed transport of classified household waste by citizens and the media, the “Regulation” proposes that the mixed collection and transport of classified household waste will have a penalty of more than 50,000 yuan. Fines below 10,000 yuan.
The “Regulations” also stipulate that units and individuals must sort and place household garbage in the appropriate collection containers at designated locations. Among them, recyclable materials can also be sold to recycling service points or recycling operators.
The “Regulation” also proposed that large-scale waste products, such as discarded sofas, wardrobes and beds, be reserved for operational environmental sanitation units, renewable resource recycling stations, or placed at special collection points by themselves.
Encourage the reduction of household waste at the source and the combination of punishment and reward. To this end, the “Regulations” have added provisions that “encourage units, families and individuals to recycle recyclable materials through the establishment of advanced models, redemption of points and other reward methods.”
Clarify the “Guangdong Standard” for garbage classification
The reporter was informed that in the process of soliciting opinions and investigating, many prefectures and cities suggested not specifying the scope of various types of garbage, leaving room for localities to adjust the scope of various types of garbage according to local conditions. Therefore, the “Regulations” stipulate that the popular government at the prefectural level should organize the formulation of guidelines for the classification of household waste based on the principles of reduction, use of resources, easy identification and easy classification, as well as the characteristics and methods of treatment of domestic waste in the region. And announced to the public.
The “Regulations” clarify that Guangdong implements a classification system for urban and rural household waste, and household waste is divided into the following four categories:
(1) Recyclables refer to household waste suitable for recycling, including paper, plastic, metal, glass, cloth, etc .;
(2) Kitchen waste refers to organic and perishable household waste, including household kitchen waste, restaurant waste, and other kitchen waste, etc .;
(3) Hazardous waste refers to household hazardous waste in the “National Directory of Hazardous Waste”, including lamps, household chemicals, and batteries;
(4) Other garbage refers to household garbage that is not recyclable, kitchen waste, and hazardous garbage.
