According to comprehensive media reports recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued the "Announcement on the Comprehensive Ban on the Import of Solid Waste", stating that the import of solid waste by any means will be prohibited from January 1, 2021. Wastes enter China, and solid wastes from overseas are prohibited from dumping, stacking, and disposal. The announcement was finalized and finally completely banned the import of all "foreign garbage", which immediately attracted the attention of many foreign media. Unsurprisingly, some Western media immediately called this decision a violation of "free trade," but this clamor is unlikely to have any impact.

For a long time, Western countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan have exported a considerable amount of garbage to developing countries. In name, it is "processing and recycling", but in essence, it transfers pollution abroad at a relatively cheap cost. . Due to the lack of economic strength in a specific historical period and the lack of environmental awareness, China has received a large amount of solid waste from abroad since the 1980s and obtained some raw materials from it. The average annual import scale of "foreign garbage" exceeds 500 million tons. China was once the world's largest importer of solid waste, accounting for half of the world's total imports of plastic waste. The pollution caused by this is shocking. Many "foreign garbage villages" have become polluted areas. The incidence of cancer is extremely high. The surface and groundwater are seriously polluted. Rehabilitation of the ecology requires a lot of time and money, so this is a complete loss. , Very harmful "trade".

The so-called "free trade" clamor by the Western media is extremely ridiculous. The United States itself is using "national security" as a reason to forcibly shut down Chinese video software that is harmless to humans and animals in the US market. The garbage full of poisonous pollution is called "freedom". There is no logic at all in this kind of double standard, and there is no need to debate with it. It should be completely cut off long ago, but China still adopts the principle of gradual and orderly progress, which has set aside some transition for these garbage exporting countries. Time, until now, the transformation has not been good, it is the blame.

The most affected is the "Beacon of the West" in the United States. About one-third of the country's garbage is sent overseas for disposal. Because of China's "rejection", a large amount of garbage in the United States can only be landfilled or thrown into the sea. The Americans themselves know that no country can handle the huge amount of garbage that China has handled in the past. Many developed countries, including the United States, had to turn their targets to Southeast Asia, including countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

As a result, the Philippines, a relatively less developed economy and historically a colony of the United States, suffered. In order to rectify imported plastic waste, the Philippine court asked Canada to transport back more than 2,000 tons of garbage containers that had been piled up in Philippine ports for several years, but the Canadian government “played dead” for a long time and did not respond. For this reason, Philippine President Duterte The Canadian government obediently transported the stinking and rotten garbage back to the country when it threatened to "declare war" on Canada. This time China's comprehensive ban on "foreign garbage" may cause some countries that originally "take over" to follow suit.