Construction Starts on China's Largest Electronics Waste Facility
Posted on: Friday, 16 September 2005, 12:00 CDT
Sep. 16--BEIJING -- A company in the port city of Tianjin is building northern China's largest electronics waste processing and recycling center, its promoter said Friday.
Taiding (Tianjin) Sci-tech Environment Protection Ltd. will spend $100 million on the facility in the city's economic development area to handle 30,000 tons of waste of electronic devices, about the amount generated in the city of 10 million every year. Construction began Thursday.
The waste will include electronic chips, computer motherboards, cables and wires, economic development area officials said in a statement.
Electronics waste is a hot issue in China.
In May, Greenpeace campaigners said workers at electronics waste sites in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces were exposed to cancer and neurological diseases. They accused foreign and Chinese electronics firms of using carcinogenic parts in computers and mobile phones.
The Tianjin processing plant will separate out gold, silver and other valuable metals. Then it will turn the remains into reusable raw materials for the electronics industry, the statement says.
It says dregs, sediment and further remains will be refined for cement production and floor tiles for construction. About 90 percent of the materials can be reused, it says.
"After the above treatments, the general electronics waste can be made completely harmless," the statement says.
Electronics waste from Tianjin, an industrial base, and elsewhere in northern China will be sent to the new facility.
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