Sustainability
Solid Waste Management
Sinopec Corp. strictly implements the requirements of national and local laws, regulations and relevant and other relevant standards related to solid waste pollution prevention and control, such as the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste, the National List of Hazardous Waste, the Pollution Control Standards for Hazardous Waste Storage. The Company has successively formulated a series of policies, such as the Sinopec Hazardous Waste Environmental Management Guidelines (Trial), the General Industrial Solid Waste and Garbage Environmental Protection Management Guidelines (Trial), and the Sinopec Hazardous Waste List (2021 Edition), and the Evaluation Indicators for "Waste-Free Enterprises", specifying the management requirements for solid waste pollution prevention and control, as well as the goals and tasks for standardized management of solid waste during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The Company has also incorporated "strictly prohibiting the illegitimate disposal of hazardous waste" into the Company's five major ecological and environmental protection prohibitions. In addition, the Company has formulated the General Industrial Solid Waste Classification Reference List for the Inspection, Maintenance, and Major Modification of Refining Enterprises and the Construction Waste Classification Reference List for the Inspection, Maintenance and Major Modification of Refining Enterprises, aiming to further enhance the management capabilities regarding the identification and classification storage solid waste, including hazardous waste, at the source.
The Company strives to continuously promote the reduction of various industrial solid waste by organising subsidiaries to conduct clean production audits, implement green procurement, green packaging and other relevant initiatives, improve product conversion rates, and adopt measures such as process greening transformation, cleaner substitution of raw and auxiliary materials, and sludge drying, etc. In 2024, the Company completed the construction of two new regional hazardous waste disposal centres, and established a total of 56 "Waste-Free Enterprises" models cumulatively. The Company also vigorously implemented resource conservation and efficient utilisation initiatives, organising its subsidiaries to complete approximately 1,200 improvement actions. One initiative, the application of shared pallets, resulted in a carbon emissions reduction of about 34,000 tonnes.
