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China to set up e-cycling systems.


China's National Development Reform Commission (NDRC NDRC National Development and Reform Commission (China)
NDRC National Defense Research Committee
NDRC National Defense Research Council
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) has announced that Zhejiang province and the city of Qingdao will be the first two locations in the country to set up recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.  systems for scrap electronics.

China's top state-owned electronics manufacturers Haier and Hisense are located in Qingdao, while Zhejiang is an affluent province that is thought to have a high diffusion of electronics, according to according to
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 news reports.

The installation and operation of these systems will provide the central government with practical references in order to establish related regulations and industrial standards for electronics recycling.

The NDRC and China's environmental authorities established a plan under which China's electronics manufacturers will be obligated ob·li·gate  
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2. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige.
 to reclaim their end-of-life products, which includes everything from refrigerators to mobile handsets.
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Title Annotation:Electronics Recycling; China's National Development Reform Commission
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9CHIN
Date:Apr 1, 2004
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