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This standard is formulated with a view to implementing "Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention of Environmental Pollution Caused by Solid Waste", strengthening management on solid wastes, protecting environment, and ensuring human health.
This standard was formulated under the organization of the Department of Soil Environment Management and the Department of Science, Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
This standard was approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection on May 27, 2017.
This standard shall be implemented from October 1, 2017.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China is responsible for the explanation of this standard.
Identification Standards for Solid Wastes
General Rules
1 Application Scope
This standard specifies the identification criterion for solid wastes according to the generation origin, the identification criterion of solid wastes during use and disposal, the substances not managed as solid wastes, those not managed as liquid wastes as well as supervision and management requirements.
This standard is applicable to the identification for solid wastes of substances (or materials) and articles ((including products and goods) (hereinafter referred to as substances).
For the purposes of this standard, the identification of liquid wastes applies.
This standard is not applicable to the identification of radioactive wastes.
This standard is not applicable to the classification of solid wastes.
This standard does not apply to the identification for the solid wastes of substances with special solid waste identification standard.
2 Normative References
The following standard contains provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. For undated references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies.
GB 18599 Standard for Pollution Control on the Storage and Disposal Site for General Industrial Solid Wastes
3 Terms and Definitions
For the purposes of this standard, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1 solid wastes
the solid, semi-solid or incased gaseous articles or substances generated in production, domestic or other activities which have lost their original utilization value or are abandoned though still having utilization value as well as the articles and substances incorporated into solid waste management as specified by relevant laws and administrative regulations
3.2 solid waste identification
the activity that judging whether the substances are solid wastes
3.3 recycle
the activity of taking substances from solid wastes to be raw materials or fuel
3.4 treatment
the activity of transforming solid wastes into those suitable for transportation, storage, use and disposal through physical, chemical or biological method, etc.
3.5 disposal
the activity that solid wastes are incinerated by physical, chemical and biological methods as well as those by which the solid wastes are changed so as to minimize the quantity and volume of the produced solid wastes as well as minimize or eliminate the hazardous components, or the activity that the solid wastes are finally disposed at the landfill site in accordance with requirements of environmental protection
3.6 target products
the intended one or several kinds of products during process design, construction and operation process, including by-products
3.7 by-products
the substances generated along with target products during production
4 Solid Waste Identification Base on Generation Origin
The following substances are solid wastes (except the substances in Chapter 6).
4.1 Substances losing their original use value, including the following types:
a) The substances which cannot be sold in the market, circulated or used as intended as they fail to meet national or local standards or universal industrial product standards (specifications) , or due to the quality, such as rejected products, defective products and wastes. However, the medium quality substances meeting national or local standards or universal industrial product standards as well as the substances reworked (repaired) in the production enterprise are excluded;
b) The substances which cannot be sold in the market, circulated or used as intended as the warranty period is exceeded;
c) The substances which cannot be sold in the market, circulated or used as intended as their quality fails meet the use requirements because of pollution, mixing or harmful substances;
d) The substances which are generated during consumption or use and can no longer be used as intended due to expiration of service life;
e) The substances which are confiscated by law enforcement agency and shall be subjected to harmless treatment such as discarding and destruction, including (but not limited to) counterfeit and shoddy products, products infringing intellectual property and prohibited goods such as drugs;
f) The substances produced for the purpose of disposal of wastes, not demanded in the market or cannot be sold and circulated in the market;
g) The substances which can no longer be used as intended due to damage because of natural disaster, force majeure and artificial disasters;
h) The substances which can no longer be used due to loss of the original function;
i) The substances which cannot be sold in the market, circulated or used as intended due to other reasons.
4.2 By-products generated during production, including the following types:
a) Leftovers, etc. generated during processing and manufacturing of products;
b) The residues generated during extraction, refinement, electrolysis, electrodeposition, purification, modification, surface treatment and other treatment process of substances, including (but not limited to) the following substances:
1) Blast furnace slag, steel slag, mill scale, ferroalloy slag and manganese slag generated during metallurgy or manufacturing of ferrous metal;
2) Pyrogenic process smelting slag generated during non-ferrous metal metallurgy or processing, such as copper slag, lead slag, tin slag, aluminum slag, as well as hydrometallurgy slag such as red mud, electrolytic anode mud, electrolytic aluminum anode carbon block scrap, Winning cell slag, acid (alkali) leach residues and purification slag;
3) Plating bath slag and polishing dust generated during metal surface treatment.
c) The residues generated during synthesis, dissociation, fractionation, distillation, dissolution, sediment and other process of substances, including (but not limited to) the following substances:
1) Acid pickle, waste alkali, argil slag and oil shale waste generated during petroleum refining;
2) Acid sludge, waste mother liquor, distillating still bottom residues and carbide slag generated during organic chemical production;
3) Phosphogypsum, ammonia alkaline residue, chromium slag, pyrite dross and brine sludge generated during inorganic chemical production.
d) Waste rock, tailings and coal gangue, etc. generated during metallic mine, nonmetallic mine and coal mining and beneficiation;
e) Drilling mud, wasted breakdown fluid, oil sludge or oil sludge sand, oil foot and oilfield spilling, etc. generated during petroleum, natural gas and heat exploitation;
f) Residues such a coalfired furnace slag generated by fuel combustion in heat energy or combustion facilities such as fossil plant, other industrial and civil boilers, industrial kiln;
g) Residues and damaged substances cleaned out from furnace, reactor, reaction tank, pipeline, container and other facilities / equipment during maintenance and overhaul of such facilities / equipment;
h) The reclaimed dust and powder which cannot be directly used as products, raw materials or site returns during processing and treatment process of substances such as crushing, smashing, screening, milling, cutting and packing;
i) Construction wastes generated during construction and operation, such as discarded materials and residues;
j) Animal wastes and sick animal carcasses, etc. generated during livestock, poultry and aquatic farming;
k) Agricultural wastes generated during agricultural production, such as crop straw, plant branches and leaves;
l) Laboratory wastes generated during educational, scientific research, production and medical experiment, such as animal carcass;
m) By-products generated during other production processes.
4.3 Substances generated during environment management and pollution control, including the following types:
a) The smoke dust and dust collected during flue gas and waste gas purification as well as dust removal, including fly ash;
b) Desulphurization gypsum generated by flue gas desulphurization and wasted denitration catalyst generated by flue gas denitration;
c) Coal tar generated by gas purification;
d) Sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid by-products generated during flue gas cleaning;
e) Sludge and other wastes generated by water purification and wastewater treatment;
f) Concentrated solution generated by treatment for wastewater or liquid waste (including leachate generated by solid waste landfill);
g) Sludge in septic tanks and excrement in toilets;
h) Fly ash and bottom ash, etc. generated by solid waste incinerator;
i) Residues generated during production of compost;
j) Plant branches and leaves generated during cleaning in greening and garden management;
k) Floatage and dredge muck removed from water bodies such as watercourse, ditch, lake, channel and bathhouse;
l) Filtering medium generated during purification of flue gas, odor and wastewater, such as waste activated carbon and filter membrane;
m) Polluted soil disposed or recycled in any of the following ways during remediation or treatment process of the polluted land parcel:
1) Landfilling;
2) Incinerating;
3) Cooperative disposal by cement kiln;
4) Producing other building materials such as brick, tile and road materials.
n) Various substances generated during other environment management and pollution remediation process.
4.4 Others:
a) Substances prohibited by law;
b) Substances authenticated as solid waste by environmental protection administration department of the State Council.
Foreword i
1 Application Scope
2 Normative References
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Solid Waste Identification Base on Generation Origin
5 Identification of Solid Wastes during Recycle and Disposal
6 Substances not Managed as Solid Wastes
7 Substance not Managed as Liquid Wastes
8 Implementation and Supervision
