In Tianjin, medical wastes and trash, such as once-off needles, injectors or pledget, will be collected by relevant departments and disposed in Tianjin Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal Center.
As one of the earliest hazardous waste treatment and disposal centers in China, this center pioneers in facility construction for poisonous and hazardous waste treatment and disposal.
Built in Jinnan District of Tianjin in 1999, the center covers an area of 87,600 square meters with total investment of 135 million yuan. The center is composed of four parts: a poisonous and harmful waste incineration plant, which can dispose 13,500 tons of waste per year; a poisonous and harmful waste landfill site, which can bury 6,200 tons of waste per year; a poisonous and harmful waste recycling and reusing plant where 10,000 tons of waste metal liquid and waste solvents can be recycled and reused per year; a plant of medical waste recollection, transportation, treat and disposal, which can handle 7,300 tons of waste per year.
Since September 1, 2003, this center has been disposing all the hazardous waste in Tianjin with yearly disposal capacity of 37,000 tons, ensuring the collection and safe disposal of medical waste and various kinds of chemical waste. It is in this center that 10 tons of highly toxic pesticide, prohibited by Tianjin Government and later seized by relevant departments in charge, was properly disposed.
There are 47 categories and 600 kinds of hazardous wastes. Currently, the hazardous waste in Tianjin mainly contains the useless and necrotic body parts after operation in hospitals, infectious goods, waste drugs, toxic industrial waste, harmful pesticide, waste battery, waste acid, waste alkali, waste solvents and poisonous and harmful chemicals.
Integrating the recycling and reusing, incineration and safe land-filling, this center has become a modern model base for poisonous, harmful, and hazardous waste treatment and disposal. It is thus positively commented as “Tianjin Model” by relevant national departments in China.
The acceleration of industrialization of China brings about a rapid increase of solid waste, which leads to increasingly serious damage to the environment without inefficient recycling and reusing of resources and advanced facilities for waste disposal. Therefore, how to dispose hazardous wastes in a safe and proper manner has become an important task for the sake of environmental protection.
Referring to the technology, standard, operational model adopted in “Tianjin Model”, Chinese Government invested 15 billion yuan in 2004 to build more than 300 hazardous waste disposal centers all over the country.
Audited by the Siemon Environment Audit Company of the US, the Tianjin center is fully qualified to handle businesses of waste disposal for transnational corporations across the world.
Tianjin will soon witness in the Binhai New Area the establishment of another hazardous waste decontamination plant, whose daily disposing capacity amounts to 100 tons.
