China Plastic Waste Reduction Project (WB-P174267)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
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Countries
  • China
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Specific Location
Chongqing, Ningbo
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Voting Date
Jun 24, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of the People's Republic of China
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Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
  • Education and Health
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Investment Type(s)
Loan
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 430.00 million
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Loan Amount (USD)
$ 430.00 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 616.74 million
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Aug 11, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Jun 25, 2020

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated by the World Bank, the development objective of the Plastic Waste Reduction Project for China is to improve plastic waste management at the national and sub-national level, and to reduce plastics pollution from municipal solid waste. The project comprises of four components.
The first component, national policies and institution strengthening will support China develop forward-looking policy directions provisioned under the policy note of further strengthening plastic pollution control (January 2020), the guiding opinions on accelerating the development of a green and low-carbon circular economy (February 2021), in line with the new law on solid wastes (April 2020), and in alignment with China’s 14th five-year plan.
The second component, sub national and local technical assistance and capacity building will help increase the synergy of the waste management regime at national, sub-national, and local levels in China, through better coordinated policy development and enforcement, pilots and demonstration, and institutional capacity building across administrative layers. It consists of following sub-components: (i) technical assistance (TA) and institutional capacity building; (ii) TA and capacity building for Chongqing to enhance urban solid waste management (SWM) from the onset of waste separation and strengthen solid waste management in rural and peri-urban areas aiming at reducing plastic waste pollution; and (iii) TA and capacity building for Ningbo to promote advanced waste recycling.
The third component, improvements to municipal solid waste management and plastic recycling will support Chongqing and Ningbo to improve the functionality of respective SWM systems, addressing plastic leakage hotspots in waste flows and pushing recycling to a higher level. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improvements to solid waste management systems in urban and rural Chongqing; and (ii) improvements to municipal solid waste management systems in Ningbo.
The fourth component, project management, monitoring and evaluation will support the operation of project management and implementing agencies in National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Chongqing and Ningbo, to ensure smooth project implementation and compliance to Bank and domestics policies and procedures.

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According to the World Bank, the project E&S risks are 'High'.

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World Bank Team Leaders:

Guangming Yan
Jian Xie

Project contacts not available at the time of disclosure.

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