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The implementation of new regulations is forcing upgrades, and recycled resource recovery is bidding farewell to extensive practices and ushering in stronger regulation
Jun 07 2026

The Specifications for the Construction and Management of Renewable Resource Recycling Stations, officially implemented on 7 月 1 日, has kicked off the comprehensive compliance-driven development of the renewable resources industry in 2026.

China's renewable resources industry is enormous in scale. In 2025, the total recycling volume of 11 major categories of renewable resources reached 4.17 亿 tons, with a total value of 1.39 万亿元, and the industry continued to expand steadily. However, for a long time, recycling stations have been loosely regulated and operated in a disorderly manner: chaotic layouts, widespread open-air stockpiling, lack of environmental protection and safety facilities, and prominent pollution and safety hazards. Even more notable are two major irregularities: non-compliant finance and taxation practices, and involvement in the disposal of stolen goods: most individual collectors and small workshops operate irregularly, commonly lacking invoices and contracts, failing to report taxes, and engaging in tax evasion and underpayment; meanwhile, weak control over the recycling process has made some stations easy channels for criminals to sell stolen goods, and illegal acquisition of stolen goods remains repeatedly unchecked. This extensive and rough operating model has not only disrupted market order, but has also severely constrained the industry's high-quality development.

In response to these long-standing industry problems, the new version of the specifications comprehensively raises entry and operating standards from three dimensions—network layout, environmental protection and safety, and site planning—completely reversing the previous situation of lax regulation.
In terms of the recycling network structure, the new rules clearly divide recycling stations into two major categories: renewable resource collection points and renewable resource transfer stations, and further subdivide them into forms such as fixed and mobile collection points. On this basis, a tiered recycling network with clear hierarchy and division of responsibilities will gradually take shape, completely ending the previous disorderly recycling model of “scattered and unorganized operators” and enabling standardized circulation from front-end collection to regional transfer. In environmental protection and safety management, regulatory requirements have achieved a qualitative leap. The new rules clearly stipulate that transfer station sites must have waterproof and anti-seepage ground treatment, and that building roofs must use flame-retardant materials; at the same time, they impose mandatory requirements for environmental protection measures such as wastewater collection, waste gas purification, noise reduction, and dust control, and also require dedicated temporary storage facilities for hazardous waste. In addition, management systems for employee safety training, emergency response plans, and occupational disease prevention and control have also become standard requirements. The rough operating model of “finding an open lot, setting up a scale, and piling up scrap” will be completely driven out of the market.

In terms of the scientific layout of sites, regulation is also moving toward refinement and data-driven management. The standard clearly specifies that stations should be planned in an integrated manner by street and township units, and in principle, each street （township） should have only 1 transfer station, with the site area strictly controlled between 150 and 5000 square meters. Quantified indicators mean that site selection and scale can no longer be decided arbitrarily, pushing the industry toward a more intensive layout.

Although this standard is a recommended industry standard and does not have mandatory legal effect, it is a core indicator of the current direction of industry development. When local governments formulate local management policies and conduct routine law enforcement inspections, they will use it as an important reference basis, and land-use approval, environmental assessment acceptance, fire safety review, and other procedures will also align with the new rules. Combined with existing legal requirements, industry regulation is continuing to intensify: public security authorities, in accordance with the Measures for the Administration of Renewable Resource Recycling, continue to strengthen public security control over the recycling of used goods; ecological and environmental authorities are carrying out normalized high-pressure inspections targeting pollutant emissions.

On the fiscal and taxation side, the systems of “reverse invoicing” and “payment-triggered invoicing” in resource recycling continue to be implemented, effectively solving the long-standing issue of missing input invoices in the industry. However, tax collection and administration are also becoming increasingly digitalized and precise, with normalized joint inspections by tax, public security, banking, and other departments, maintaining a high-pressure crackdown on false invoicing and tax fraud, tax evasion, and income splitting for tax avoidance. This means that every link of a photovoltaic recycling enterprise’s financial accounts, invoice management, and tax filing must be compliant throughout the entire process, and business models operating in fiscal and tax gray areas will no longer have room to survive.

The combined effect of operating standards and tax supervision is profoundly reshaping the industry landscape. Rising compliance costs and higher entry thresholds have directly squeezed the survival space of small workshops and non-compliant enterprises; meanwhile, formal enterprises equipped with sound environmental protection facilities, standardized fiscal and taxation systems, and mature recycling technologies are becoming the preferred partners of power station owners and module manufacturers, gradually entering the industry “whitelist.” At the same time, supportive policies such as the immediate levy-and-refund of value-added tax for comprehensive resource utilization all take compliant operations as a prerequisite, further guiding enterprises to proactively embrace standardized development models.

Multiple rules and enforcement measures are forming a combined regulatory force, and a multi-dimensional, full-process compliance supervision system has already taken shape. It can be foreseen that after the new rules take effect in 7 月, regulation of the renewable resource recycling industry will become comprehensively stricter, and the era of wild, unchecked growth will come to a complete end. Non-compliant scattered stations and small workshops will gradually be phased out, and only formal entities that strictly comply with all requirements for sites, environmental protection, safety, and layout will be able to establish themselves in the market. The entire industry will also move steadily toward standardization, greening, and regulated development.

The core competitive logic of the industry is also changing accordingly. In the past, photovoltaic recycling competed entirely on control over supply sources and price advantages; today, compliance capability, environmental protection standards, technical strength, and full-process management capability have become the keys for enterprises to gain a foothold. Industry insiders predict that over the next two to three years, industry concentration will rise rapidly, and the market share of leading compliant enterprises will continue to expand.




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Shanghai RESOLAR Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to becoming a recycled material photovoltaic group with deep decarbonization. RESOLAR focuses on technological innovation and builds a world-leading solution for component recycling, impurity removal of damaged cells, recycled silicon materials and cells, and cascaded utilization of components. With professional technology and services, we help customers realize the recycling and reuse of waste photovoltaic resources, and make positive contributions to the development of environmental protection and new energy industries. For more detailed information, you can browse the official website: www.resolartech.com .

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