The Conference on Solid Waste and New Pollutants Management will be held in Chengdu in 2026.

On March 18, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a conference on solid waste and new pollutant control work in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in 2026, fully summarizing the achievements of 2025 and the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" work, planning for the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" work, and deploying key work in 2026. The meeting emphasized the need to accelerate the formulation of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" for solid waste pollution prevention and control and the development of relevant documents on strengthening the coordinated management of new pollutants, and to implement and refine the requirements of the ecological environment code. It also called for the promotion of comprehensive management of solid waste, focusing on the special rectification of illegal dumping and disposal of solid waste, deepening the special rectification of heavy metal environmental safety hazards, phosphogypsum storage, and landfill pollution hazards, and speeding up the establishment of a hazardous waste full-process supervision information system covering key monitoring units nationwide. Strengthening source control and deepening the treatment of new pollutants.