The waste electrical and electronic equipment China fear into the victim's implementation

WEEE electronic products manufacturer, must be responsible for recycling and handling of its sales in the EU but rejected products, and pay the relevant fees. EU promulgated the "waste electrical and electronic equipment" (WEEE Directive) in August 13, 2005 began formal implementation. WEEE requirements for electronic products manufacturer, must be responsible for recycling and handling of its sales in the EU but rejected products, and pay the relevant fees.

By then, the market to the EU market of electronic and electrical products companies will bear the responsibility for recycling. In this way, it is possible to actively promote the improvement of product design from the source, make the product easier to recycle or upgrade, and reduce the use of toxic substances. At present, there are a lot of toxic substances in electronic products, which pose a serious threat to the environment and human health. For example, brominated flame retardants, they are not easy to break down in the environment, and will enter the food chain and easily accumulate in animals, but also affect the nervous and hormonal systems.

However, some analysts believe that the implementation of the policy, China will probably become the biggest victim. The source pointed out that the manufacturing industry is not due to increased manufacturing costs caused by the decline in exports, but due to the rising cost of processing, will inevitably lead to the number of e-waste Chinese influx through various channels of increase, causing more pollution to the environment.

Yue Yihua, director of Greenpeace China project said: "we are very worried about the use of electronic products in the EU in the abandoned after being illegally shipped to developing countries China and India, local land pollution, endangering the health of workers. Low labor costs while helping us to use some valuable parts of the electronic waste, but in this process, the electronic waste containing toxic substances in our environment have paid a huge price."

Yue Yihua said: "although the recycling process can solve the problem of e-waste pollution plays a role. However, due to the large amount of toxic substances contained in electronic waste, the recycling ratio is greatly reduced, and the recycling process is also very dangerous. Therefore, when the government is trying to check the illegal e-waste, the only way to solve the problem is to stop the use of toxic substances in electronic products."

According to the study abroad, per ton of printed circuit board can be isolated from 286 pounds of copper, 1 pounds of gold, 44 pounds of tin, but waste treatment is very complex, high cost, the construction of electronic waste treatment plant is not only a huge investment, and high cost, the payback period is very long, so don't need advanced technology and equipment, low cost, short cycle profit become the primary means of manual dismantling e-waste, at present, China is a major importer of electronic waste, electronic waste and pollution to the environment is enormous.

At present, by the State Environmental Protection Administration, Ministry of information industry and other six ministries jointly drafted the "electronic information products pollution control management measures", is the final coordination of the national development and Reform Commission, the relevant laws and regulations at the same time.

Despite the fact that China's law has strictly prohibited the import of electronic waste, gray trade is still under way:

In April 1.2005, in the 18 ports of Europe (including the UK, Germany, Belgium, Holland, etc.) a joint checks, check out the 393 carriers, 240 of them are transport waste. Law enforcement found that the 240 cases of waste transport, 113 of them are illegal. A large number of them will be shipped to China and other Asian countries.

2 Hongkong re exports, is the main way of illegal import of electronic waste. According to the Hongkong environmental protection department of the Hongkong declaration in 20044 years including seized 55 containers from waste cathode ray tube to the north; from waste cathode ray 30 containers in Asia and Oceania to the cathode ray tube; from the waste 2 containers to the European tube.

It is just the tip of the iceberg that e-waste trade is illegal. We must also recognize that e-waste pollution is the source of electronic products, stop the use of toxic substances in order to solve the e-waste pollution from the root of the environment.