Administrative Measures of Shanghai Municipality for the Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Urban Domestic Garbage

(Promulgated by Decree No. 5 of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on August 1, 2008; amended for the first time by Decree No. 52 of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on December 20, 2010; amended for the second time by Decree No. 19 of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on January 26, 2025)

Article 1 (Purposes and Basis)

With a view to strengthening management of this Municipality's domestic garbage, maintaining cleanness of the city appearance and environmental sanitation and safeguarding citizens' physical health, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of City Appearance and Environmental Sanitation and the Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on the Administration of City Appearance and Environmental Sanitation.

Article 2 (Application Scope)

These Measures apply to the collection, transportation and disposal of domestic garbage and relevant management activities thereof in the central area of this Municipality, new cities, central towns, and urbanized areas including independent industrial parks and economic development zones.

Article 3 (Implementation Departments)

The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall be responsible for the management of domestic garbage disposal in this Municipality.

The district landscaping and city appearance department shall be responsible for the management of domestic garbage disposal in its own administrative area, subject to the professional guidance of the municipal landscaping and city appearance department.

The administrative departments of economy and informatization, planning and resources, finance, price control, housing, etc. shall, according to their respective functions and duties, give their cooperation in the implementation of these Measures.

Article 4 (Planning and Budgeting)

The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall, in conjunction with relevant departments such as municipal planning and resources, carry out unified planning for the layout and land use of domestic waste disposal facilities. The municipal and district landscaping and city appearance departments shall be responsible for organizing the construction of domestic waste disposal facilities according to their respective responsibilities.

The expenses needed for the construction and operation of the facilities for the collection, transportation and disposal of domestic garbage shall be included into the fiscal budgets of the municipal and district people's governments.

Article 5 (Installation of Containers)

The person in charge of managing the classification and disposal of household waste shall, in accordance with provisions, set up household waste classification collection containers, maintain the cleanliness, integrity, and normal use of household waste classification collection containers.

Article 6 (Segregated Collection)

This Municipality shall gradually practice segregated domestic garbage collection. Hazardous or poisonous wastes, and large-size rubbish such as discarded furniture and household appliances shall be separately collected.

The municipal and district landscaping and city appearance departments shall formulate specific procedures and requirements for segregated domestic garbage collection according to the disposal methods and make such procedures and requirements known to the public.

Article 7 (Drop-off Requirements)

Every unit and every individual person shall, according to the requirements set by the municipal and district landscaping and city appearance departments, drop off domestic garbage in the container, facility or at the site as provided.

Article 8 (Generation Report)

The newly-built residential quarter, or newly-established unit that has not been included into the domestic garbage collection system, shall, according to the following provisions, report to the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance departments about the quantity and types of domestic garbage produced:

1. In respect to residents' household garbage in the residential quarter under property management, the property service enterprise shall report to the district landscaping and city appearance department; as for that in the residential quarter not under property management, the developer or house proprietors shall report thereto.

2. In respect to domestic garbage of a unit, the garbage-yielding unit shall report to the district landscaping and city appearance department, while vessel domestic garbage shall be reported to the municipal landscaping and city appearance department by the vessel’s user.

Article 9 (Determination of Collector and Transporter)

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance departments shall, according to the generation volume of domestic garbage, delimit rationally service areas for domestic garbage collecting and transporting operations and determine the collector and transporter for each operation service area through public bidding. The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall determine the collector and transporter for vessel domestic garbage by public bidding; and the district landscaping and city appearance department shall determine the collector and transporter for other domestic garbage by public bidding.

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall sign an agreement on collecting and transporting operation service with the bid-winner, and the municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall, according to relevant state provisions, issue a Certificate of Service License for Collection and Transportation of Domestic Garbage. The agreement on collecting and transporting operation service shall specify service area, duration and standards for collection and transportation, where to transport, liability for breach of the agreement and such other things.

Article 10 (Requirements for Collector and Transporter)

Service units for the collection and transportation of domestic garbage shall meet the following conditions:

1. having tools capable of segregated collection;

2. having conveyances totally-enclosed and protective against odor diffusion, rubbish shedding, scattering, liquid leakage and spillage;

3. having a sound management system on technologies, quality, safety and monitoring, with effective implementation;

4. having a lawful road transportation business license and a vehicle running pass;

5. having a fixed office premises; 

6. and having fixed places for parking machines, equipment, vehicles and vessels.

Article 11 (Rules for Collection and Transportation)

Units engaging in the collection and transportation of domestic garbage shall comply with the following provisions:

1. collecting and transporting domestic garbage according to the environmental sanitation operation service rules;

2. conducting segregated collection and transportation of segregated domestic garbage;

3. resetting domestic garbage collecting facilities and doing cleanup without delay after the collection and transportation of domestic garbage, keeping collection facilities and their surroundings neat and clean;

4. maintaining special airtight vehicles and vessels for collecting and transporting domestic garbage in good condition and clean outside; 

5. and transporting domestic garbage to the transfer station or disposal site designated by the municipal landscaping and city appearance department for deposit or disposal.

Article 12 (Transfer Stations)

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department or domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit may, according to the need of transporting domestic garbage, set up a domestic garbage transfer station. The establishment thereof shall comply with the environmental protection requirements and technical rules governing the establishment thereof and relevant examination and approval procedures concerning the planning and environmental protection shall be completed as prescribed.

Domestic garbage in a transfer station shall be deposited airtight and for not more than 48 hours.

Seeping water yielded in a domestic garbage transfer station shall be treated up to water pollutant emission standards set by the State and this Municipality before being discharged.

Article 13 (Determination of Disposal Units)

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall, according to the divided functions and duties, determine the domestic garbage disposal operation service unit through public bidding.

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall sign an agreement on domestic garbage disposal operation service with the bid-winner and the municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall issue a Certificate of Service License for Domestic Garbage Disposal Operation to the bid-winner. The agreement on domestic garbage disposal operation service shall specify such contents as the source, service duration and standards of domestic garbage disposal.

Article 14 (Requirements for Disposal Operation Units)

A domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall meet the following requirements:

1. A sanitary landfill site, a compost plant or an incineration plant shall comply with planning in sitting and obtain relevant planning permits;

2. Technologies and techniques adopted shall conform to relevant national standards;

3. Having well-established rules on technical operation, equipment management, environmental monitoring and protection, financial management, work safety, measurement and statistics, etc.;

4. Domestic garbage disposal facilities shall be equipped with methane gas testing instruments, environmental monitoring facilities such as seepage monitoring wells and tail-gas sampling holes, and be installed with monitoring equipment such as the online monitoring system;

5. A sanitary landfill and compost plant shall have a thorough technical plan for utilizing and handling domestic garbage seeping fluid and methane gas; and the sanitary landfill site shall have a plan on burying different garbage in different areas as well; 

6. And Having a disposal scheme for discharging pollutants up to the standard.

Article 15 (Determination of Disposal Methods)

The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall, in line with the amount of domestic garbage generated in this Municipality and the disposal capacity of domestic garbage disposal sites/plants, make unified arrangements of domestic garbage disposal methods and disposal sites in each district according to the principles of proximity and economization.

Article 16 (Disposal Rules)

A domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall take over domestic garbage as required.

The domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall dispose domestic garbage in compliance with the State- and this Municipality-set technical standards governing domestic garbage disposal and maintain the inside and outside of the disposal site/plant tidy and clean.

The domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall ensure the normal operation of domestic garbage disposal facilities and equipment.

The sewage, waste gas and dregs discharged by domestic garbage disposal sites/plants shall meet the State’s and this Municipality's relevant standards for pollutant emissions; during the pollutant-discharging period, the domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall regularly test the pollutant emissions and submit a test report to the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department before 10th of the first month of each quarter of a year.

Article 17 (Garbage Disposal Fees)

A domestic-garbage-yielding unit shall pay domestic garbage disposal fees according to the fee-charging standards for units' domestic garbage set by the municipal price control department.

A domestic-garbage-yielding resident shall pay domestic garbage disposal fees according to the State's provisions. The municipal price control department shall, jointly with the municipal landscaping and city appearance department, put forward the scheme for the specific time and standards for such fee collection and implement it after getting the approval from the Municipal People's Government.

When preparing the scheme for the disposal-fee-charging standards for residents' domestic garbage, the municipal price control department and the municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall hold a hearing to solicit opinions from the public.

Article 18 (Data Reporting)

A domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit and disposal operation service unit shall set up accounts to record the collection, transportation and/or disposal, and report such matters of the last quarter to the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department before 10th of the first month of each quarter. The accounts of domestic garbage collection and transportation shall accurately record the sources, types, quantity and destinations of domestic garbage collected and transported; the disposal accounts shall accurately record the sources, types and quantity of domestic garbage disposed of as well as disposal results.

The district landscaping and city appearance department shall consolidate and report in good time to the municipal landscaping and city appearance department, the data concerning the collection, transportation and disposal of domestic garbage.

The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall, in the first quarter of each year, make known to the public the generation volume and disposal matters of domestic garbage as well as the balance sheet for domestic garbage disposal fees of the last year.

Article 19 (Handling of Shutdown)

A domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit and disposal operation service unit shall not arbitrarily stop the operation service of the collection, transportation and disposal of domestic garbage within the agreed service period. In real need of shutdown for special reason, the domestic garbage collection and transportation operation service unit shall notify the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department in writing 3 months in advance while the domestic garbage disposal operation service unit shall do so 6 months in advance.

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall, upon receiving the notification or knowing that a domestic garbage collection and transportation operation service unit or disposal operation service unit stops operation service without authorization, promptly arrange for a relevant unit to collect, transport or dispose of domestic garbage.

Article 20 (Emergency Response Mechanism)

The municipal and district landscaping and city appearance department shall prepare an emergency response preplan on domestic garbage disposal and institute a system for emergency collection, transportation and disposal of domestic garbage.

A domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit and disposal operation service unit shall, according to the provisions of the municipal and district emergency preplan on domestic garbage disposal, prepare their own emergency preplan for domestic garbage disposal and report it to the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department for record.

In case of a contingency that causes incapability of collecting, transporting or disposing of domestic garbage as normal, the domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit or disposal operation service unit shall promptly report to the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department, which shall arrange for relevant units to collect, transport or dispose of the domestic garbage in good time.

Article 21 (Disposal of Derelict Garbage)

With regard to derelict domestic garbage discarded on roads and at public places in this Municipality, the local district landscaping and city appearance department shall promptly arrange for a collection and transportation unit to do clean-out.

Article 22 (Forbidden Acts)

In the process of collecting, transporting and treating domestic garbage, no person shall randomly discard, dump or deposit domestic garbage or mix segregated domestic garbage with other rubbish in doing operations.

No unit or individual person shall engage in domestic garbage collecting, transporting and treating activities without authorization.

Article 23 (Supervision and Inspection)

The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall conduct on-the-spot supervision and inspection of domestic garbage collection and transportation units and disposal units, and set up corresponding supervision files. The municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department may, according to the actual need, assign disposal-unit-stationed supervisors.

When conducting supervision and inspection, the inspector may take the following measures:

1. consult and copy relevant documents and materials;

2. request the unit or individual person being inspected to explain the matter under investigation;

3. enter the site to conduct inspection; 

4. and order to make prompt correction in case of any illegal act found at the site.

The unit or individual person being inspected shall give cooperation, report the situation accurately, provide materials relating to the inspection, and shall not practice fraud, withhold the truth or hamper or obstruct the inspector from performing duties.

Article 24 (Appraisal)

The municipal and district landscaping and city appearance department shall institute an appraisal system for domestic garbage collecting, transporting and disposal operation service, appraising the domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit and disposal operation service unit every year. The appraisal shall mainly include the following contents:

1. implementation of operation service rules;

2. compliance with requirements for operation service;

3. matters about account-recording and data-reporting;

4. cases of administrative punishment; 

5. and performance of other obligations stipulated in the operation service agreement.

During the appraisal process, the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall hear opinions of the unit being appraised, the public as well as other relevant units and individual persons.

After the close of appraisal, the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department shall notify the appraisal results in writing to the unit appraised. The unit that was judged to be unqualified may apply to the municipal landscaping and city appearance department for review within 15 days upon receipt of the appraisal result. The municipal landscaping and city appearance department shall inform the review applicant of the review result in writing within 15 days upon receipt of the review application.

Article 25 (Dealing with Unqualified Units)

Where a domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit or disposal operation service unit is judged to be unqualified for two consecutive years, the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department may terminate the agreement on collection and transportation or disposal operation service with such unit and arrange for other relevant units to do the job.

Article 26 (Legal Liability)

Violations of these Measures shall be punished by the municipal or district landscaping and city appearance department according to the following provisions:

1. A violator of the provision under Article 8 of these Measures, failing to make a report on domestic garbage and affecting city appearance and environmental sanitation, shall be ordered for correction within a prescribed time limit; and in case of a failure to make correction within the prescribed time limit, the violator shall be imposed of a fine of not less than 100 yuan but not more than 1000 yuan.

2. A violator of the provision under Clause 2 of Article 12 of these Measures, failing to deposit domestic garbage in an airtight condition or keeping domestic garbage in the transfer station for more than 48 hours shall be ordered for correction within a prescribed time limit and may be imposed of a fine of not less than 2000 yuan but not more than 20000 yuan.

3. A domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit that contravenes the provision under Clause 1 of Article 19 of these Measures, arbitrarily stopping the collection and transportation activity without notifying the landscaping and city appearance department as prescribed shall be ordered for correction within a prescribed time limit and may be imposed of a fine of not less than 10000 yuan but not more than 30000 yuan.

4. A domestic garbage collecting and transporting operation service unit or disposal operation service unit that contravenes the provision under Clause 2 of Article 20 of these Measures, failing to prepare the emergency collection and transportation or disposal plan as prescribed shall be ordered for correction within a prescribed time limit; in case of a failure to make correction within the prescribed time limit, the violator shall be imposed of a fine of not less than 1000 yuan but not more than 10000 yuan.

Violators of the provision under Clause 3 of Article 12 of these Measures, discharging seeping water in the transfer station above pollutant emission standards shall be handled by the ecology and environment department according to relevant environmental protection provisions.

Article 27 (Other Provisions)

The collection, transportation, disposal and management of restaurant-kitchen garbage shall comply with the provisions of the Measures of Shanghai Municipality on the Administration of the Disposal of Restaurant-kitchen Garbage; the cleanup, clean-keeping and management of roads and public places shall comply with the provisions of the Measures of Shanghai Municipality on the Administration of Cleanup and Clean-keeping Service of Roads and Public Places.

Article 28 (Effective Date)

These Measures shall be effective as of November 1, 2008.