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CPMIC Invited to Attend the 2015 International Symposium on E-waste EPR
Release time:
15 May,2015
On May 14, 2015, the "2015 International Symposium on E-waste EPR" was held in Beijing. It was hosted by the Center for Solid Waste and Chemical Management Technology of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Center for International Cooperation on Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Electronic Waste Recycling and Disposal Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, the United Nations Development Programme, the European Union, and the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation Committee co-organized and supported the event. The Precious Metals Recycling Special Committee of the China National Materials Recycling Association, as the only comprehensive organization in China's precious metal recycling industry, was invited to participate and exchanged views with relevant officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection and attendees on the current development of waste electrical and electronic products in China and the status of precious metal recovery and refining.
According to relevant officials from the Pollution Control Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the management of solid waste and chemicals is not only an environmental issue but is also closely related to economic and social development. On the one hand, the air, water, and soil pollution caused by solid waste and chemicals are becoming increasingly prominent, seriously threatening environmental health. On the other hand, the effective reuse of resources is crucial, as waste electrical and electronic products contain many useful resources. Statistics show that e-waste contains approximately 40% metal, 30% plastic, and 30% oxides. In addition, e-waste also contains a large number of rare and precious metals, such as gold, silver, copper, tin, chromium, platinum, and palladium. Therefore, strengthening the recycling and utilization of waste electrical and electronic products and improving the environmental management policies for solid waste and chemicals are of great significance for developing a circular economy, overcoming the constraints of resource shortages on China's economic development, and promoting the coordinated development of environmental health and society.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a system born from the process of developed countries solving the problem of being surrounded by garbage. It is an effective environmental policy tool for promoting waste reduction, resource utilization, and harmlessness. Representatives from the Dutch and French Ministries of Environmental Protection and officials related to ecology and sustainable development introduced the development and implementation of EPR in Western countries. EPR has been effectively implemented in European countries, and governments have also provided strong support for this system. This system has played a very important role in improving and maintaining the environment in Europe and effectively promoting the comprehensive recycling of resources. In 2012, China took the lead in implementing an EPR treatment fund system for five categories of waste electrical and electronic products: televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, and microcomputers. This significantly promoted the harmless recycling and treatment of e-waste. However, China's EPR-related policies and regulations are still not perfect, the industries that obtain resources from recycling and treatment are still in their early stages of development, and they face many challenges, such as unclear producer responsibility definitions and environmental pollution caused by informal processing.
During the conference, Bian Jiang, Secretary-General of CPMIC, exchanged views with representatives from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the United Nations Development Programme, and the environmental protection departments of the Netherlands and France. As the world's largest producer and consumer of electronic and electrical products, China's e-waste is increasing year by year. E-waste is a veritable "urban mine." If not handled properly, the impact on the environment and social development will be far greater than that of traditional garbage. On the one hand, waste electrical and electronic products contain a large number of toxic and harmful substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polyvinyl chloride plastics, and brominated flame retardants. Improper handling will cause great harm to the environment and human health. On the other hand, waste electrical and electronic products are rich in gold, silver, platinum, palladium, iron, aluminum, copper, various rare and precious metals, and various recyclable resources such as plastics. If these can be recycled, it will help solve the problem of increasingly scarce resources.
Therefore, drawing on the experience of developed countries and combining with the actual development of Chinese enterprises, it is particularly urgent to establish and improve a recycling and treatment system for e-waste based on the Extended Producer Responsibility system to fundamentally solve the negative impact of e-waste on the environment. Only in this way can China truly improve the resource utilization efficiency of its enterprises and enhance their international competitiveness.
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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) refers to the responsibilities of producers, extending not only to the production process but also to the entire life cycle of the product, especially its recycling and disposal after being discarded. Producers must bear five responsibilities: Environmental Liability: Producers are responsible for proven environmental damage caused by their products, the scope of which is defined by law and may include all stages of the product life cycle; Economic Responsibility: Producers pay all or part of the costs for the collection, recycling, or final disposal of their products. Producers can assume economic responsibility through a specific fee; Physical Responsibility: Producers must actively participate in the handling of their products or the impact caused by their products, including developing necessary technologies, establishing and operating recycling systems, and processing their products; Ownership Responsibility: Producers retain ownership of the product throughout its life cycle, and this ownership is linked to the environmental issues of the product; Informative Responsibility: Producers are responsible for providing information about the product and its environmental impact at different stages of its life cycle.
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