Recent years see a high Chinese annual imports of solid waste. It is related to the shortage of resources in China in some extent, and it brings about a lot of environmental and health problems. This paper reviews the status of the imported solid waste from the aspects of both quantities and sources of the imported solid waste, as well as its economic and environmental influences. In view of the current situation of legislation and supervision mechanism, this paper analyzes the existing problems in the supervision of the imported solid waste, the reselling environmental approval, the loopholes of the import of the solid waste directory, the difficulties of the import solid waste identification, the smuggling, and the degree of difficulties of the substandard solid waste disposal etc. Finally, a series of measures are put forward to regulate the order of imports of the solid waste market, such as the construction of the import property right trading system, the reference to the international HS code, a clear identification of responsibilities, to expand the international platform for the international cooperation.

solid waste  /  foreign garbage  /  import regulation  /  environmental effect