Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (FECO/MEP) was officially established after the approval of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform in 1997.
The management of massive amounts of industrial and hazardous wastes is one of the major challenges facing China. It is also a bottleneck for a number of heavy industries. As part of addressing this problem, many developed countries have now taken the environmentally friendly option of co-processing this waste in cement kilns, rather than using less ecologically-sound incinerator plants. China, too, is now on the verge of embracing this alternative.
When the first phase of Sino-Norwegian cooperation on Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and Industrial Wastes in Cement Kilns in China came to an end, a guideline, based on lessons learned, best practices, technical research, experiments and demonstrations, was developed. This aims to constitute a uniform standard for all the cement plants co-processing of industrial and hazardous wastes in order to prevent environmental pollution and accidents during operation.
Co-processing of hazardous wastes in cement kilns has been practiced for more than 30 years and is acknowledged to be highly feasible for sound treatment of hazardous waste. This process has developed substantially over the last 20 years and is now globally recognized as one of the preferred methods of disposing of a wide range of problematic materials.
Talking with Kre Helge Karstensen, chief scientist & special advisor of the Norwegian Foundation for Scientific & Industrial Research (SINTEF), you cannot help but be impressed by his enthusiasm for his job.
Editor's Note: Kre Helge Karstensen is the chief scientist & special advisor of Foundation for Scientific & Industrial Research (SINTEF) of Norway. Here he outlines his belief that co-processing may prove the answer to China's growing waste pollution problem.
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