Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: Will Implement Full-Process Supervision of Construction Waste.

On January 13th, the State Council Information Office held a routine policy briefing to introduce the "Action Plan for Comprehensive Management of Solid Waste". Hu Zijian, the Director of the Urban Construction Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, stated that the next step is for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to guide all localities to comprehensively improve the management level of construction waste. Firstly, strengthen source management, promote green construction, include the costs of reducing, transporting, utilizing and disposing of construction waste in project costs, and implement waste classification for construction waste. Secondly, strengthen transport supervision, improve measures such as installing Beidou satellite positioning systems on construction waste vehicles and ships, and enhance supervision of transport behavior. Thirdly, standardize end disposal, accelerate the construction of facilities for the resource utilization of construction waste, and ensure that construction waste has a place to go. Finally, implement comprehensive supervision, establish a provincial level coordination mechanism with overall responsibility for urban construction waste, strictly implement the record-filing system for approval and disposal plans for urban construction waste, and improve the joint working mechanism of multiple departments.