A Review of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Beijing City
In this paper we present an overview of the municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Beijing City. Beijing is the capital of China, with a land area of about 1368.32 km2 and a population of about 10.06 million in 2006. Over the past three decades, rapid industrialization and economic development have caused a tremendous increase in MSW generation in Beijing City, which is from 1.04 million tons in 1978 to 4.134 million tons in 2006. The average generation rate of MSW in 2006 is 1.13 kg/pers/day, among which food scraps comprise 63.39%, followed by paper (11.07%), plastics (12.7%) and dust (5.78%). While all other compositions including tile, textile, glass, metals and wood account for less than 3%. Currently, 90% of MSW generated in Beijing is landfilled, 8% incinerated and 2% composted. As landfill ratio is high, source separation has been considered a preferred strategy for MSW management by the municipality. Till the end of 2007, there are a total of 2,255 residential areas and enterprises (covering about 4.7 million people) involved in MSW separate collection. The MSW management in Beijing has been undertaken by Beijing Municipal Administration Commission, with the participation of Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce in recent years. Its major challenges are waste reduction, source separation of household wastes, and the participation of non-government sectors.
Beijing City municipal solid waste management review
Li Zhen-shan Yang Lei Qu Xiao-Yan Sui Yu-mei
Department of Environmental Engineering , Peking University, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sedimen Department of Environmental Engineering , Peking University, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sedimen The Key Laboratory for Environmental and Urban Sciences, Shenzhen Graduate School, PekingUniversity,
国际会议
The 3rd International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第三届固体废物管理与技术国际研讨会)
北京
英文
425-438
2008-11-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）