| Informal electronic waste recycling: A sector review with special focus on China. | |
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PMID: 21147524 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Informal recycling is a new and expanding low cost recycling practice in managing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE or e-waste). It occurs in many developing countries, including China, where current gaps in environmental management, high demand for second-hand electronic appliances and the norm of selling e-waste to individual collectors encourage the growth of a strong informal recycling sector. This paper gathers information on informal e-waste management, takes a look at its particular manifestations in China and identifies some of the main difficulties of the current Chinese approach. Informal e-waste recycling is not only associated with serious environmental and health impacts, but also the supply deficiency of formal recyclers and the safety problems of remanufactured electronic products. Experiences already show that simply prohibiting or competing with the informal collectors and informal recyclers is not an effective solution. New formal e-waste recycling systems should take existing informal sectors into account, and more policies need to be made to improve recycling rates, working conditions and the efficiency of involved informal players. A key issue for China's e-waste management is how to set up incentives for informal recyclers so as to reduce improper recycling activities and to divert more e-waste flow into the formal recycling sector. |
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Xinwen Chi; Martin Streicher-Porte; Mark Y L Wang; Markus A Reuter |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2010-12-11 |
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Title: Waste management (New York, N.Y.) Volume: - ISSN: 1879-2456 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-12-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9884362 Medline TA: Waste Manag Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie Street, Carlton, VIC 3010, Australia. |
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