At the end of 2025, the country had 1,137 waste incineration facilities
China aims to raise its municipal household waste recycling rate to more than 76% by the end of 2030, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said this week.
The announcement was made during the launch of the 4th national awareness week on the separation of urban domestic waste, which was held from May 25th to 31st.
The ministry will move forward this year with targets on waste separation and reduction, resource utilization and safe disposal, while improving policy frameworks, strengthening the management of recyclable materials and increasing recovery rates to support high-quality urban development and the construction of a Beautiful China, a government official said.
He said that over the past decade, the ministry has driven sustainable progress in waste separation through pilot programs and model demonstrations.
Waste separation now covers virtually all residential communities in 297 prefecture-level cities and above. These cities have collectively enacted 199 local waste separation regulations or rules and issued more than 100 technical standards.
The ministry’s latest data revealed that at the end of 2025, China had 1,137 waste incineration facilities across the country, with a combined daily processing capacity of 1.18 million tons.
Fifteen provincial-level regions, including Beijing, Zhejiang and Shandong, have achieved the goal of zero landfills of untreated household waste, with pollutant emission controls that are among the most stringent in the world.
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This text was originally published by Xinhua on May 25, 2026. The content is free for republication, the source is cited, and has been adapted to the Poder360.
