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International Coordination for ¡°Environmentally Sustainable Management of Medical Wastes in China¡±

(May 6, 2008)
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EnviSolve is contracted by the Stockholm Convention Implementation Office (CIO) of Ministry of Environmental Protection to facilitate international coordination affairs under the UNIDO/GEF/China Program on Environmentally Sustainable Management of Medical Waste in China. It is a 5-year assignment starting from March 2008.

EnviSolve¡¯s engagement with the project dated back to 2006 when the CIO started the project development. EnviSolve was selected as the leading firm consultant to prepare the project documents together with 4 other consulting bodies: Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Chinese Institute of Hospital Management, Shenyang Institute of Environmental Sciences, and China Association of Environmental Protection Industry.

The project proposal was recognized as a masterpiece by GEF. Based on the extensive barrier analysis of medical waste management, treatment and disposal in China, the project is determined to carry out the demonstration and replication of best available techniques and best environmental practices (BAT/BEP) in the environmentally sound management of medical waste to continuously reduce PCDD/PCDF releases by upgrading the incineration equipment and air pollution control systems (APCS) to the BAT level and replacing outdated or over-capacity incineration facilities with alternative, non-incineration techniques that avoid the release of PCDD/PCDF.

To achieve the goal, the regulatory, administrative, planning, technical, economic, market, information and training instruments are designed and will be applied comprehensively during the implementation of the project to: (i) promote the locally affordable or commercially available supply of technologies and equipment needed and (ii) promote the commercialization of domestically constructed medical waste treatment and disposal facilities. This extensive capacity building program aiming at regulatory framework strengthening, institutional strengthening, and promoting local manufacturing industry and services will be carried out nationwide.

The project documents are available for downloading from GEF¡¯s website at: http://gefonline.org/projectDetailsSQL.cfm?projID=2927
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