Now, in Today's China Daily
A news story, a video, and a photo provide something you all need to know, right here and now, about E-Waste and China for the remainder of the decade.
ONE:
News Story: China buys more PCs than the USA, and generates as much or more "e-waste" as the USA does. Whether the USA is exporting 20% or 80% to China, and in what form, is immaterial to China's environment.
TWO:
Video: The best recycling of electronics is done by hand, not by shredder. Working parts (chips and heat sinks), higher grade metals (like rare earth magnets and electric grade copper wire), and grades of plastic can be managed by hand in nations which have low wage labor and high unemployment. Here it is in China...
Here is the "future" of E-Waste Recycling.
Huaxing Environmental.
THREE:
China has factories using CRT glass cullet to make new CRTs. They have the factories which reuse CRTs on assembly lines to make brand new, affordable, refurbished displays for Africa etc.
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ANSWER THE QUESTION: IS REPAIR AND REFURBISHMENT LEGAL?
BASEL CONVENTION SAYS "YES" It is LEGAL.
ADVOCATE (BAN.ORG) ADVOCATES FOR THE AMENDING THE CONVENTION SO IT WON'T BE LEGAL, BUT STATES THAT THE SHIPMENT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL.
IS MANUFACTURER TAKE-BACK ILLEGAL? BAN friends say "takeback" is the solution. But that is explicitly what BAN is attacking in Indonesia, factory takeback.
E is for "epic fail". E-WASTE INSANITY. An NGO calling for amendment, change to a law, based on the fact that the law is against the law.
Take me outside and shoot me now. The video about Green Godzilla wiping out Japan is happening in China and Malaysia and Indonesia today... but the green monster is an NGO. Environmentalists, once again, we have met the enemy, and he is us. Right here, right now.
[ BULLS**T ALERT: Purported photos of "BIGGEST E-WASTE LANDFILL" in Ghana. Count how many piece of electronics are in this landfill. Compare this to the video above, #2. Get back to me Monday]
A news story, a video, and a photo provide something you all need to know, right here and now, about E-Waste and China for the remainder of the decade.
ONE:
News Story: China buys more PCs than the USA, and generates as much or more "e-waste" as the USA does. Whether the USA is exporting 20% or 80% to China, and in what form, is immaterial to China's environment.
TWO:
Video: The best recycling of electronics is done by hand, not by shredder. Working parts (chips and heat sinks), higher grade metals (like rare earth magnets and electric grade copper wire), and grades of plastic can be managed by hand in nations which have low wage labor and high unemployment. Here it is in China...
Here is the "future" of E-Waste Recycling.
Huaxing Environmental.
THREE:
China has factories using CRT glass cullet to make new CRTs. They have the factories which reuse CRTs on assembly lines to make brand new, affordable, refurbished displays for Africa etc.
right
here
right
now
right
here
right
now
ANSWER THE QUESTION: IS REPAIR AND REFURBISHMENT LEGAL?
BASEL CONVENTION SAYS "YES" It is LEGAL.
ADVOCATE (BAN.ORG) ADVOCATES FOR THE AMENDING THE CONVENTION SO IT WON'T BE LEGAL, BUT STATES THAT THE SHIPMENT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL.
IS MANUFACTURER TAKE-BACK ILLEGAL? BAN friends say "takeback" is the solution. But that is explicitly what BAN is attacking in Indonesia, factory takeback.
Take me outside and shoot me now. The video about Green Godzilla wiping out Japan is happening in China and Malaysia and Indonesia today... but the green monster is an NGO. Environmentalists, once again, we have met the enemy, and he is us. Right here, right now.
[ BULLS**T ALERT: Purported photos of "BIGGEST E-WASTE LANDFILL" in Ghana. Count how many piece of electronics are in this landfill. Compare this to the video above, #2. Get back to me Monday]
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