E-waste disposal 'not yet mature' in China

摘要

'Driven by interests, e-waste recycling processing with extremely severe pollution is formed in many places of China,' a recent report by China Research and Intelligence Co (CRI) has claimed. The country's e-waste disposal ' industry is 'not yet mature', it adds, China has been generating e-waste 'at an astonishing speed' in recent years, CRI states, citing a 2010 figure of 2.3 million tonnes that makes it 'the second largest producing country of e-wastes worldwide'; in first place is the USA with 3 million tonnes. Chinese volumes are likely to snowball given that the country's output of electrical and electronic equipment scaled new heights in 2011 of 320 million computers, 120 million televisions and 105 million refrigerators.