Dec 18, 2025
The primary objective is to establish a comprehensive waste recycling system by 2025, achieving clear progress in the reuse of principal waste types. Annually, 4 billion tons of major industrial and agricultural waste—including mine tailings, coal ash, coal residue, smelting waste, by-product gypsum, construction waste, and straw—will be repurposed. The reuse rate for new bulk solid waste types will reach 60%. Key recycled resources, such as scrap metal, waste paper, plastics, rubber, and glass, will total 450 million tons annually. The recycling industry’s annual value will reach 5 trillion yuan.
By 2030, the goal is to create an efficient, comprehensive waste-recycling system. Targets include fully tapping the value of all types of waste, increasing the proportion of recycled materials in the raw material supply, and positioning the industry among the world's leading in scale and quality.
Encourage careful handling and effective recycling of waste, and improve management of industrial waste. Hold waste-producing units accountable and establish clear management records for general industrial waste. Encourage sorting and storage to prevent mixing and disposal, ensuring conditions for resource recycling.
Improve the collection system for agricultural waste. Establish and improve the collection, treatment, and utilization system for livestock and poultry manure, and build supporting facilities, including centralized collection and treatment of livestock and poultry manure, and storage and utilization of biogas residue and liquid, in accordance with local conditions. Improve the straw collection, storage, and transportation system, guide major straw producers to collect and store straw on-site, and cultivate third-party service entities for collection, storage, and transportation.
Promote the classification and recycling of social source waste. We will continue to promote the work of classifying domestic waste. Improve the recycling network for various types of waste, including household appliances and electronic products. Further enhance the pretreatment capacity in the recycling process of waste materials. Promote the integration of domestic waste classification network points and waste material recycling network points.
Enhance resource utilization and waste reuse, and strengthen comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste. Further expand the channels for the comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste. Under the premise of meeting environmental quality standards and requirements, strengthen the promotion and application of comprehensive utilization products in the construction field, smooth the channels for the utilization and absorption of underground filling, ecological restoration, roadbed materials, etc., and promote the efficient extraction and clean utilization of valuable components from tailings and smelting slag.
Strengthen the efficient utilization of renewable resources. Encourage the rational extension of the deep-processing industrial chain for recycled resources, such as scrap steel, scrap non-ferrous metals, waste paper, and waste plastics. Support the green, mechanized, and intelligent quality improvement and transformation of existing projects for the processing and utilization of recycled resources. Encourage enterprises and research institutions to enhance the research and development of technical equipment and support the promotion and application of advanced technologies.
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