According to “Financial National Weekly” reported that “arsenic poisoning”, “lead”, “cadmium rice” and others frequently, so that heavy metal pollution is one of the most talked about public events; the forthcoming “Heavy Metal Pollution Integrated Control,” Ten twenty-five “plan” shows that China will mercury, chromium, cadmium, lead and heavy metals to focus prevention and control.
In late March, nearly half of Anhui Province, more than lead-acid battery manufacturers still in production.
This year in January, the outbreak of children’s blood lead Huaining County of Anhui Province exceeded the accident; The investigation, lead-acid battery production process of the main sources of lead pollution in the accident.
Subsequently, the relevant departments of Anhui Province in a month shut down about 50 lead-acid battery business.
The accident, directly accelerating the “integrated pollution prevention and control of heavy metals” Twelve Five “plan” (the “Plan”) is introduced.
February 18, the “planning” was officially approved by the State Council became the first approved “second Five-Year” plan. The industry believes that “people cry” and related heavy industries, has reached a historical juncture.
5 total control of heavy metals
“Financial National Weekly” has learned that “planning” to focus on monitoring and control of pollutant emissions of heavy metals are five kinds, namely, mercury, chromium, cadmium, lead and arsenic metals.
In accordance with the “planning” requirements, by 2015, “key areas” of lead, mercury, chromium, cadmium and arsenic and other heavy metals pollutants than the 15% reduction in 2007; “non-key areas,” the focus of heavy metal pollutants emissions do not exceed the 2007 level.
The so-called “key areas”, including Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other 14 key provinces and 138 key protection areas.
Vice president of environmental planning, according to Ministry of Environmental Protection Wu Shunze introduction, and sulfur dioxide, the main pollutants in different universality, showing regional characteristics of heavy metal pollutants pollution, “even if the 14 key provinces, nor is it a problem everywhere; “planning” or even level of refinement to the industrial park, such as a town in the industrial cluster in an industrial park. ”
Wu Shunze frankly, the increase in the frequency of incidents, from disorder involving the development of heavy industry. ”
According to its introduction, “planning” for the focus on monitoring emissions control are “hard targets”, requiring very strict, “key areas” and then in principle the establishment of heavy metals related companies. For example, the focus of prevention and control of mercury pollution in the region, in principle, then the new mercury-related enterprises, prohibiting new mercury emissions while also reducing emissions.
“Through technological transformation of enterprises of clean, emission monitoring and other measures to strengthen, if necessary, to take economic and administrative means,” Wu Shunze told the “Financial State Week,” although “planning” in the prevention and control, two aspects of governance are required, but the “ten twenty-five “planning focus, but not the remediation and restoration of historical issues; but to focus on resolving business related heavy metal pollution, control” and more, small, scattered, chaotic “business, stable business emissions.
Biggest weakness
Back in the 80s of last century, some scholars have continued to appeal to the importance of heavy metal pollution prevention; but in the “planning” before the introduction of this work has always been to give in to “more urgent need to address, with a general pollution” of the sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand the amount of material reduction.
As early as 1978 to the outbreak of the Xiangjiang River had heavy metal poisoning cases, lead to some coastal residents in drinking water was interrupted. Thus the onset of mercury pollution to a large extent social pressure.
Fire-fighting style of governance lead to “the end of countless” has become the largest heavy metal pollution control weakness.
Routine environmental protection department of environmental monitoring data, although containing the last 5 to 10 years of atmospheric heavy metals with water and change data; but the specific source where had not been made public.
In 2006, former Environmental Protection Administration and Ministry of Land and shared the “National Soil Survey and Pollution Control Project” was officially launched; but plans to use three and a half years to complete the project was stranded halfway up to 2008 to restart, has also not published any results.
May 2007, China launched the first national census of pollution sources, the first heavy metal pollution in China to conduct a detailed survey, covering water, air and soil. This year’s “planning” The introduction provides a reduction in emissions of the “2007 baseline.”
The investigation lasted two years until February 2010 was finally announced. Survey results show that, when the heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, arsenic, mercury, lead) emissions to 90 tons. However, the survey did not announce the results of provinces, autonomous regions or sectors of data in more detail.
2008 and 2009, heavy metal pollution into the period of frequent accidents, Dushan County, Guizhou broke out, Chenxi County, Hunan, Guangxi Hechi, Yangzonghai Yunnan, Henan and other 5 cases the Dasha of arsenic contamination;
August 2009, Fengxiang town 3 village in 851 children’s blood lead level exceeding the accident, as “planning” the biggest catalyst.
Followed in November 2009, the State Council issued a “heavy metal pollution control work on the strengthening of guidance to notice.”
After nearly six months to prepare the foundation, around the start of data synchronization investigation and repeated comments, the “plan” formed gradually. “China made clear heavy metal pollution, including lead, arsenic chromium mercury cadmium several heavy metal pollutants in water and air,” Wu Shunze said.
More importantly, focusing on prevention and control of key areas and also have a list of prevention and control of enterprises. According to Wu Shunze introduced, including lead-acid battery manufacturing industry, including five major industries and 4,452 companies become the focus of prevention and control objects.
Environmental Protection Ministry said that these five key prevention and control industry has been refined. Leather and leather products industry, for example, only for tanning leather processing industry; chemical materials and chemical products manufacturing, only for paint, ink, PVC and other sectors of total control.
“Heavy Metal Pollution in the industry do not have the broad spectrum, not every industry or business will use heavy metal as a raw material or catalyst”, this person explained.
Su Lead Storm
“Planning” published soon, a “carpet-style” investigation since swept the country since February.
“Twelve Five” heavy metal pollution prevention and control of the “first chess”, fall shut down the related remediation of heavy metals business. Because of frequent “lead” accident, suffering from lead-acid battery industry criticized the first to be cut.
State Environmental Protection Minister Zhou requirements, environmental protection departments at all levels should lead in this area all the battery manufacturers to troubleshoot, for there is no environmental impact assessment procedures to perform, did not complete the “three simultaneous” acceptance, long-term excessive discharge of the enterprise “shall be determined according to stop treatment.”
Early March, the ministry has organized a special inspection of environmental protection, environmental monitoring by the Bureau take the lead in the 10 inspection teams to provinces and cities around the lead-acid battery business of on-site inspection.
“Test results is not very good,” one unnamed industry sources, “estimates will soon be under the file number of enterprises closed down.”
Some experts have expressed concerns about pollution-intensive enterprises shut down could lead to the transfer to the Midwest, where the environment is more fragile.
“Local investment and GDP, performance-linked. Heavy prevention policy, too, when it comes to local investment, the policy may be sour,” one industry expert said.
“Financial National Weekly” has learned that China’s lead-acid battery production base in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, a large-scale renovation in 2004, producers; but got rid of enterprises are received Anhui, Shandong, Jiangxi and Hubei delivery to the “olive branch “to the name of a successful transfer of investment, as was the heavy metal pollution around the frequency of incidents foreshadowed.
China Battery Industry Association, the new Secretary-General Liu told the “Financial State Week”: “priority is to improve the access threshold for the industry, regulate the industry clean production.”
“Involved in prevention and treatment of heavy metal heavy metal battery business, there are no technical obstacles have been,” Liu believes that investment in cleaner production technology, while more, but the payback period is not long, large enterprises are willing to use; but many small businesses sleepy capital, promote difficult.
Lead-acid battery industry enterprises are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong area, with production of nearly 2,000 business licenses, “without a permit countless.”
According to the China Battery Industry Association, China’s enterprises above designated size of the lead-acid batteries only two, three hundred, the production of lead-acid battery industry accounted for more than 80% of total output, “the number of firms over the entire industry, scale is generally too small, a large number low-level redundant construction. ”
November 26, 2010, the Ministry of Industry, “Heavy Metal Pollution in the battery industry prevention programs,” the draft introduced, as “planning” in the first five surveillance industry sectors in the heavy metal pollution control programs.
The “draft” suggested that by 2015, China’s battery industry, mercury, cadmium, respectively, the total consumption of 80% and 70% reduction, lead-acid battery unit power consumption of lead decreased 10%; the production process of solid waste containing heavy metals basically sound recycling and safe disposal; improvement of standards Recycling of waste lead-acid battery system; under the existing Clean production evaluation system, more than 30% of clean production scale enterprises reached domestic advanced level.
“Two years later, the output value is less than 80 million yuan / year of lead-acid battery companies will have to stop, choose the transition, or be eliminated; only reach 2 billion in annual output value of enterprises can access. Do the same projections, the national lead-acid batteries enterprises will be reduced by at least one half or more. “Liu New to the” Financial State Week “to make the above interpretation.
“Limit small scale, backward technology, poor business transformation and changing products, large-scale enterprises to increase investment in clean production, pollution is controlled,” the new Liu repeatedly stressed that “there is no polluting industries, only the polluting enterprises.”