The new rules on garbage classification in Beijing are a revision of the Beijing Municipal Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste since the regulations came into force in 2012. The new rules on garbage classification in Beijing will come into force on May 1, 2020 formally.

So what changes have been made to the new Beijing garbage classification regulations compared to the previous ones?

1, the individual illegal placement of garbage penalties

Beijing's new rules on garbage classification clearly, units and individuals are the main responsibility of the classification of household garbage placement, and illegal placement of garbage on the individual behavior, the implementation of a combination of education and penalties. Individuals who violate the law can be fined 200 yuan for repeated offenses.

2. Restrictions on disposable items

(1) The new regulations stipulate that party and government organizations and institutions should implement paperless offices, increase the proportion of recycled paper used, and refrain from using disposable cups and glasses.

(2) From the perspective of saving resources, reducing consumption, and guiding green consumption, the regulations make it clear that catering operators, catering and distribution service providers and hotel operators shall not take the initiative to provide disposable items, and shall set up eye-catching reminder signs. The detailed catalog of disposable items shall be formulated and published by the Municipal Urban Management Committee with the relevant departments.

(3) Anyone who violates the regulations on the active provision of disposable goods shall be ordered by the comprehensive law enforcement department of the city management to immediately rectify the situation and shall be fined from 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan; if the regulations are violated again, a fine of from 10,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan shall be imposed.

3, strictly deal with the "mixed transport"

(1) the new regulations provide that the collection and transportation of domestic waste should be collected and transported to the centralized collection facilities or comply with the provisions of the transfer, treatment facilities, shall not be mixed, shall not be mixed, shall not be arbitrarily dumped, discarded, spilled, piled up.

(2) For violation of the provisions, the comprehensive urban management and law enforcement department shall order the removal, and the penalty shall be adjusted from the previous 5,000 yuan to less than 50,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan to less than 100,000 yuan. In serious cases, the license to collect and transport household garbage may be revoked.

What are the standards for waste classification in Beijing

Beijing's new rules on waste classification, in order to facilitate the public's knowledge of waste classification and avoid conceptual confusion, the regulations further simplify the standards for waste classification by integrating the two categories of food waste and kitchen waste into a single category of food waste, and making it clear that domestic waste is divided into four basic categories of food waste, recyclables, hazardous waste, and other waste. The regulations further simplify the waste classification standards by integrating the two categories of food waste into one category of food waste, and clarifying that domestic waste is divided into food waste, recyclables, hazardous waste and other waste, with definitions given in the bylaws.

1. Food waste:

(1) perishable garbage such as vegetables and leaves, melon and fruit peels and cores, leftovers and discarded food generated in households;

(2) food residues, food processing waste materials and discarded edible oil and grease generated by enterprises engaging in catering activities and collective canteens of institutions, military forces, schools, enterprises and public institutions in the course of food processing, catering services and unit meal supply activities;

(3) food residues, food processing waste materials and discarded edible oil and grease produced in the course of food processing, catering services and unit meal supply activities. food residues, food processing waste and waste edible oil and grease;

(3) as well as farmers' markets, wholesale markets of agricultural products, vegetables and fruits waste, rotting meat, meat and bones, aquatic products, animal and poultry offal, and so on. Among them, waste edible fats and oils refer to the animal and plant fats and oil-water mixtures that are no longer edible.

2, recyclables:

It refers to the activities generated in daily life or providing services for daily life, has lost all or part of its original value of use, recycling after reprocessing can become raw materials for production or after finishing can be reused items, mainly including waste paper, plastic, glass, metal, electronic waste, fabrics and so on.

3, hazardous waste:

The toxic and harmful substances in domestic waste, mainly including waste batteries (cadmium-nickel batteries, mercuric oxide batteries, lead storage batteries, etc.), waste fluorescent tubes (fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps, etc.), waste thermometers, waste sphygmomanometers, waste products and their packaging, waste paints, solvents, and their packaging, waste insecticides, disinfectants, and their packaging, waste film and waste photo paper. .

4. Other garbage:

It refers to domestic garbage other than food waste, recyclables, hazardous garbage, and domestic garbage whose categories are difficult to recognize.

Beijing Waste Classification Management Measures 2020

The new Beijing Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations, which came into effect on May 1, 2020, incorporate domestic waste management into grassroots social governance.

The regulations clearly stipulate:

1, street offices and township people's governments should incorporate the management of domestic waste into grass-roots social governance work, organizations, guide residents' committees and villagers' committees will be included in the garbage classification requirements of the residents' convention or village rules and regulations.

2, city and district governments and their relevant departments, street offices, township governments should support and encourage volunteers, volunteer organizations and other types of social organizations to carry out the classification of household garbage put publicity, demonstration and other activities, to participate in the management of household garbage.

3. At the same time, support for environmental sanitation, recycling economy, property management, tourism hotels, catering and cooking, housekeeping services, commercial retailing and other related industry associations to develop industry self-regulation norms, industry training and evaluation, *** with the participation and promotion of domestic waste management.

4, the setup of garbage cans

Regulations distinguish between units of office or production and business premises, residential areas and natural villages, other public **** place of the three types of areas, respectively, the setup of the requirements of the refinement.

(1) for residential neighborhoods and natural villages: required to set up food waste, other garbage collection containers in groups, and at least one garbage drop-off point to set up recyclables, hazardous waste collection containers.

(2) For the offices or production and business places of party and government organizations, enterprises and public institutions, social organizations and other units: four types of collection containers should be set up as needed.

(3) other public **** place: can be set up as needed recyclables, other garbage two types of collection containers.