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BEIJING, Nov. 1 -- ChineselegislatorsonWednesdaywarnedthatsolidwastetreatmentisinagravesituation.
CommendingprogressChinahasmadeinpreventingsolidwastepollutioninthepastfiveyears, ZhangDejiang, chairmanoftheNationalPeople'sCongress (NPC) StandingCommittee, admittedthat "prominentchallengesremain."
TheSolidWasteControlLawmustbeproperlyimplemented, ZhangsaidashepresentedareporttotheNPCStandingCommitteeatitssix-daybimonthlysession.
ThereportcameaftertheNPCStandingCommitteebegantoinvestigateenforcementofthelawinMay.
Theamountofsolidwasteislarge. Managementofhazardouswastemustbestrengthened, thereportread.
"Eachyear, thecountrygeneratesnearly 4 billiontonnesofwastefromlivestockandpoultry, around 1 billiontonnesofcropstraw, around 3.3 billiontonnesofgeneralindustrialsolidwasteandaround 200 milliontonnesofhouseholdwasteinlargeandmedium-sizedcities," thereportsaid.
Disposalsystemsforhouseholdwastearewidespreadinurbanareas; however, 57 percentofthecountry'svillageshavenone.
Thereportalsolistedproblems, suchaspollutersnotfulfillingtheirresponsibilities, andlocalgovernmentdepartmentsperformingpoorlyinsupervisionandlawenforcement.
Thepublicisnotfullyawareofenvironmentalprotection. Over-consumptionandover-packagingarecommonbutgarbagesortingisnot, thereportsaid.
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