Where Is The 110 Thousand Ton Of Electronic Waste Dismantling Pollution In Guangzhou?

On this year's world environmental protection day, the green E Guangzhou, a local public welfare organization born in Guangzhou, has released the report on "disconnecting the electronic waste industry chain - Guangzhou e-waste recycling industry chain and public opinion poll", revealing the current situation of recycling and management of electronic waste in Guangzhou. Recently, the Nanfang Daily reporter, according to the investigation route revealed in the survey report, secretly visited the Guangzhou electronic waste recycling market, trying to restore the current situation of Guangzhou's e-waste recycling.

Where does an old computer go to a hawker?

Whether old circuit boards, used handsets, old watches or almost useless microscopes and motors, they have found a vast market of rebirth in Guangzhou.

According to the statistical results of 500 questionnaires, although more than 80% of the citizens realize that the improper disposal of e-waste can pollute the environment and affect their health, nearly 50% of the citizens are selling e-waste to the vendors.

According to the report of the Guangzhou municipal solid waste pollution prevention and control plan (2005 to 2015), the number of electronic waste generated in Guangzhou in 2010 reached 110 thousand tons. By 2015, 130 thousand tons of e-waste will be generated, and only a few of them can be processed and recycled by formal processing companies. Most of them are transferred to the secondary market for sale, or through underground workshop recyclers, self-employed households and dismantling personnel.

There are thousands of vendors of electrical appliances around the top of the gang.

Guangzhou's Tianhe Road and Shi Pai Xi Road area are the gathering places of Guangzhou's electronic high-tech products. They are gathered in Tianhe computer city, EGO Digital Plaza, Pacific Digital Plaza and 100 billion brain exchange.

Wu Da Jie from Henan came to set up the stall at 10 o'clock a.m., as long as someone passed by the booth, she handed out her business card and sold her services - high priced computers, printers, color TV and all other electrical equipment.

Nanfang Daily reporter learned that the object of the recycler includes all electronic waste, from computers, home appliances to all kinds of accessories, and can find purchasers. Only some of the recyclers are unwilling to accept domestic or cottage mobile phones. Their customers include companies and individuals, and the specific price depends on the brand and the old and new level of the goods.

"There is no restriction on education and age in this line. The threshold for entry is low, and the time arrangement is relatively free." Xiao Nan, who is very good at it, told Nanfang Daily that there are at least several thousand vendors of recycling appliances around the top of the gang. Most of her colleagues are migrant workers from Anhui, Hunan, Sichuan and other places, and live in villages with cheap rents. At ordinary times, they are like the townspeople, sunrise, empty handed, empty cars, and the sunset is full of returns, accumulating to a certain amount, so long as the price is right, they will soon hand out to the next purchaser. "One day, you can earn $350."

The recycling of e-waste is a way for Wu to make a living. She not only needs to feed herself, but also remit money to her children's schooling every month. Therefore, the "product" price is her first consideration. She will not consider the subsequent flow of these electronic wastes, and will not even consider whether it will affect the environment and health. She even thinks that her work promotes the reuse of resources and contributes to environmental protection.

"Waste" is shipped to Shantou or Taizhou, Zhejiang.

Mr. Liu, who stalls at the gate of the presidential Cyberport, met reporters to ask about the price of recycling, and hurried to attract business. His two stalls are co operated with three stall owners. According to the brand, performance and the old and new level, the recovered electronic products will be used for refurbishing or disassembling parts. If it can not be dealt with, it can only be put at home, and then accumulated to a certain number, and then sold as a waste product, "a broken motherboard, the waste can sell 20 yuan a Jin."

In a large number of electrical appliances recycling small business vendors gathered in the city village, every evening can see from Haizhuqu District, Panyu District and even Shantou and other places of freight cars, they come here to purchase accumulated electronic waste.

Despite all the inquiries, most of the recycling hawkers said they did not know the flow of "junk" that could not be refurbished. And the recyclers who know the situation say that these "junk" will be shipped to Shantou or Taizhou, Zhejiang, the two largest electronic waste dismantling sites in China.

Through interviews with dozens of e-waste recycling practitioners in Guangzhou, the reporter learned that Guangzhou has already formed a recycling service, which has begun to take shape, and has been dismantled and sold. After the recycling of hawkers to recycle the waste electronic products, some of them can be transferred to the secondary market for sale, while the remaining part is transported to the surrounding areas of Guangzhou to make preliminary classification and dismantling, such as the preliminary classification and dismantling of Dashan Village in Panyu. Some parts after the initial dismantling, such as the PCB, are transported to the Shantou Guiyu or Zhejiang Taizhou and other places to dismantle the next step.