E-RECYCLING IN CHINA

摘要

Hangzhou Keyun Metal Manufacture Co. Ltd. is located about two and a half hours south of Shanghai. Inside the company's iron gates, there is a wide, paved loading area that is mostly empty except for piles of large burlap bags. These bags are bursting with old computer circuitboards that are destined for recycling here. "We buy and process 900 metric tons of PC boards per month, and we have the capacity to process 30,000 metric tons per year," explains Danny Wong, purchasing manager for Hangzhou Keyun. Wong leads the way across the loading area and stops outside a warehouse where boxes of defective circuitboards are piled next to other boxes of defective vacuum cleaner parts. Next to them are boxes of rejected computer laptop frames complete with circuitboards and wires still attached. "Of course," Wong states, "most of this material is forbidden--unless you have a license and a method for processing it."