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Collection and Treatment Schemes for E-waste
Project Site Location
Suzhou city, Jiangsu Province
2009
Background - Problems Addressed and Policy Responses
China has been experiencing rigorous challenges regarding
waste electronics and electric equipment (WEEE) since the
drastic increase in e-waste from 2003. The government has
focused on e-waste management, and in recent years has
approved a series of regulations. However, there are many
socio-environmental problems related to e-waste; e.g., in
Suzhou, most e-waste is collected by individual merchants.
E-waste recycling
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2007
2006
Project Outline - Objectives and Activities
In order to create a systematic e-waste recycling and disposal system at the city level, a series of
activities has been conducted, including: establishing e-waste collecting demonstration sites in two
communities; carrying out e-waste collection and publicity activities in the demonstration city; carrying
out laboratory research and facilitating to set up a used/old computer dismantling and recycling
pilot project; and establishing an information system platform in BCRC China to support the e-waste
collection system in the demonstration city.
2005
Impacts and Achievements
This project has proposed two schemes; one for collecting e-waste from different organisations in the
demonstration city and one on best-available technology on e-waste recycling for developing countries.
Informational seminars covering experiences related to the managerial and technological aspects of
recycling e-waste have been delivered to other cities at the city level. During the seminars, schemes for
e-waste collection and on the best-available technology for e-waste recycling in developing countries
were disseminated between the different cities and specialists.
Future Challenges
Pressures resulting from a profit-driven market involving unregulated e-waste recycling was one of the
key challenges for effective operation of the e-waste collecting sites, for which two countermeasures
were adopted. The lack of related policies and regulations on e-waste collection presents another
challenge, one key response to which is to enhance the management of and focus on e-waste collection
within local governments so as to promote establishment of the policies.
General Information
Name of the Implementing Organisation:
Basel Convention Coordinating Center for Asia and the Pacific (BCRC China)
Type of Organisation: Other (National organization with regional function)
Contact: Jinhui Li, Executive Secretary
Basel Convention Coordinating Center for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Environmental
Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: 86 10 6279 4143 Fax: 86 10 6277 2048
E-mail: jinhui@tsinghua.edu.cn / bccc@tsinghua.edu.cn Website: http://www.bcrc.cn
Project Reviewer (NetRes / Collaborators) that monitors the project:
Lei WU, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES) E-mail: aiawu80@gmail.com
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