National definition of waste

"Solid waste" refers to any solid, semisolid, or contained gaseous substance or material resulting from production, daily life and other activities, which lose its original utilization value, or which does not lose utilization value but is discarded, and substance or material regulated as solid waste by laws and regulations.

National definition of hazardous waste

"Hazardous wastes" means solid wastes included in the national catalogue of hazardous waste or solid wastes which, according to the identification standards of hazardous wastes, are determined as having the hazardous property.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China: The list of hazardous wastes for the purpose of control on waste import and export in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is specified in the Seventh Schedule (Annex I, available upon request from the Secretariat) of the Waste Disposal Ordinance (WDO), the Laws of Hong Kong Chapter 354. Under the WDO, contaminated wastes are also controlled as hazardous wastes. For the purpose of control on import and export of wastes under the WDO, a waste is "contaminated" if it is contaminated by a substance to an extent which

- Significantly increases the risk of human health, property or the environment associated with the waste; or

- Prevents the reprocessing, recycling, recovery or re-use of the waste in an environmentally sound manner.

Article 1(1)b waste

China Nickel compound waste (code: HW46; source of the waste: wastes of nickel compound; reactionary residue and unqualified products from the production; overdue nickel catalysts; nickel residue and tank liquid from the electroplating process; waste nickel compounds from analysis, chemical examination and testing).

Barium compound waste (code: HW47; source of the waste: wastes of barium compounds excluding barium sulfate; reactionary residue and unqualified products from the production of barium compound; salt bath residue from the heat treatment process; wasted barium compound from analysis, chemical examination and testing).

Waste generated from nonferrous metal smelting process (code: HW 48).

Other waste (Code: HW49).

Wastes requiring special consideration

In China, import of solid wastes that cannot be used as raw materials is prohibited. Up to now, wastes listed in the "Catalogue of Automatic-Licensing Import Solid Wastes that Can Be Used as Raw Materials in China" and "Catalogue of Restricted Import Solid Wastes that Can Be Used as Raw Materials in China" are permitted to be imported.