Problems and solution of toxic waste landfill in city

On the basis of the announcement of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, there were 849 waste disposal facilities，which had 676 sanitary landfill sites processing about 102.9 million tons,processing over 145.89 million tons in 660 formed city by the end of September 2010 (City Construction Office Letter of China, [2010] No.158,). Accordance with the statistics above, landfilling, composting and incineration are still the basic treatment of waste. On the other hand, although there were restrictive policy to manage and control toxic waste, such as management of waste classification and standards of specification of landfill site facilities (“Standard for pollution control on landfill”, for hazardous wastes, 2001-12-28 GB 18598--2001, & for municipal solid waste, 2008-04-02 No.5), most of local governments did not implement policies efficiently and establish a functional system for classifying waste, especially in industrial waste emission. As a result, the precious natural resources cannot be reused. More importantly, the toxic and hazardous waste would cause irreparable pollution by emission as well as landfill without classifying.Here is a case shows how terrible effect happens when the toxic and hazardous waste emission to environment without processing in Italy. Created in China national network February 14, according to the description of a informer,the Italian government assaulted the criminal organizations base of Camorra and sought out many plastic buckets of toxic waste with other illegal industrial waste, Folha de Sao Paulo reported on February 11 (Liu Junling, “The Italian "triangle of death” cased by toxic landfill, 2014.02.14) . What is more, northern territory of the Naples region has been called the “the devil death triangle” because the Camorra gangs buried toxic industrial waste without treatment and caused incredible rise tendency of cancer cases. On the statistics basis of a environmental organization, over 10 million tons of toxic waste have been buried illegal in northern of the Naples region. These emissions won billions of dollars in profits, while the harmful substance contained in soil as well as groundwater would cause serious threat to local residents’ health.