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Shanghaiist was delighted to learn that there is finally an environmentally-friendly way to get rid of the contents of her "electronic junk and bad DVD drawer of death."
The newly opened Xin JinHua Recycling Center is the first of its kind in Shanghai to offer professional and green recycling services for e-waste. You can call them to arrange collection of everything from paper, plastics, and glass to home appliances, electronics, furniture and office equipment.
As an incentive for people to recycle through them rather than on the black market, the center pays competitive rates for different kinds of trash—1yuan per kilo of newspaper, 0.2 yuan per glass bottle, etc. Ask for a quote on electrical equipment and appliances.
For now they only service residents and businesses in the Changning District, but special pickup can be arranged for offices and factories in other areas. Expansion plans are underway to provide collection services for all residential districts in the next few months.
China has long been the dumping ground for much of the developed world's trash, of which electronic waste is one of the fastest growing problems. Some reports estimate that as much as 80% of the world's tech trash ends up in China. Most of this ends up in the hands of black market recyclers who burn and melt e-waste as a crude and toxic way to separate plastic parts from precious metal components.
Xin JinHua Recycling Center (in Chinese)
Service Hotline: (021) 62348790 ask for Mr. Jiang
Original article appeared in China CSR.
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What's amazing is that we just observed Earth Day yesterday here in the US, and on television, major news organizations boasted what some big corporations were doing to help the enviornment. One of the corporations was Dell, who supported a drive to have old, used and broken computers recycled. Now I wonder where they are going to have it 'recycled'?
This is the problem with open comment policies: ignorant ideologues like Nancy post comments based on prejudice, not fact. Fact is, Nancy, Dell has spent millions researching safe and environmentally-sound e-recycling systems in the united states. They are, in fact, one of the world's top spenders on this kind of research, and they operate some of the most advanced e-recycling systems in the world - at a loss, no less! - in the united states. They are audited by environmental groups, and they've even been praised by some of the hardest-line green groups in the world in regard to this issue.
So, in answer to your question - 'where are they going to have it 'recycled'?' - they are going to have it recycled in the united states, at a certified, dell-run facility.
Next time, Nancy, know what you are talking about before opening your mouth.
Awesome. Somebody please tell the guy with the megaphone who rides through my neighborhood in the early morning that he can kindly knock it the fuck off!
hi farmer and the dell?
i'm sorry i personally offended you with my ignorance, as you so kindly put it. i'm glad you took the time to answer my question. and it was just that, a question - where were all the e-waste going? i did not mean to single out Dell (and i can tell you are a fan of them), i just remembered them from the news, but since the news here in america doesn't like to go into depth about things, especially enviornmental leanings that could prove detrimental to companies that sponsor the news, i continued to wonder. also, i believe you must know more about this issue from your post, would you be so kind as to point me to the sources that led you to your conclusions?