Institutionalization Design in the Establishment of Recycling and Logistics Systems for Household Electronic Waste: Experience and Inspiration from Hangzhou Pilot Residential Communities

摘要

Most countries place great importance on the recycling, treatment, and reuse of household electronic waste (hereinafter referred to as HEW). For instance, countries in Europe began to treat electronic waste as early as the 1970s. Since the beginning of the 1980s, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden have probed deeply into the comprehensive utilization of electronic waste, and have devoted considerable efforts to the technical development of manual disassembly and metal enrichment. In the 1990s, the mechanical technique of metal enrichment was furthered and implemented in Western Europe (Wu 2001).