Abstract
Since its reform and opening up, China's economy has been developing rapidly, but at the same time, China’s resources and environment have been increasingly seriously exhausted and damaged. There have been many world-famous public nuisance incidents in developed countries however, pollution caused by solid waste (i.e., garbage) is no less harmful than these international public nuisances. For China, the problem of solid waste import is especially serious and has become a nightmare for the development of environmental protection. The treatment of foreign waste import is an important fundamental approach for China to realize economic transition and promote the expansion of international trade. This paper studies and analyzes the harms of imported waste, explores the practical problems and difficulties in the treatment of imported foreign waste in China and provides a breakthrough concept of green development to promote the expansion of international trade and economic transition by placing a restriction or even ban on foreign waste import. To protect its ecological environment, China has accelerated the process of institutionalizing foreign waste import and economic transition, improved the legislation and law enforcement mechanisms for the treatment of waste import, and encouraged public participation in economic transition and environmental protection. The concepts of waste import restriction and green development provide an important reference for the world.
Highlights
Foreign waste import mainly refers to the general term of solid waste, such as electronic waste, that is exported by developed countries to developing countries
Social justice is “that branch of the virtue of justice that moves us to use our best efforts to bring about a more just ordering of society—one in which people’s needs are more fully met” [30]. It is an effective means for China to improve environmental quality by restricting or even banning the entry of foreign waste to advance the reform of the solid waste import management system, and that is an important task for the implementation of the new development concept, especially in the promotion of green development
Speeding up the reform of the import management system of solid waste and keeping the foreign waste out of China will promote all local governments of China to change their concepts of development so that they adhere to the path of ecological priority and green development
Summary
Foreign waste import mainly refers to the general term of solid waste, such as electronic waste, that is exported by developed countries to developing countries. Biochemistry, heavy metals and other hazards from foreign waste cause long-term harm to the environment, which endangers the health of relevant practitioners in the chain of the foreign waste industry and causes pollution to soil, water, the environment and ecology across large areas. In the process of importing solid waste for recycling, poisonous and harmful waste has been entering China in large quantities. China has become a landfill site for some developed countries to dump garbage. Such foreign waste has caused great pressure on China's weak ecological environment
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