Taiwan and China announced plans to cooperate to recycle the volume of electronic scrap in China, according to an official with Taiwan’s Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs.
China's program to promote sales of "home appliances in the countryside" is expected to trigger a buying spree of electronic gadgets to replace older items around the country, which will lead to increasing demand to recycle the discarded appliances, says Chu Hsin-hua, head of the IDB's Sustainable Development Division.
The IDB estimates that the Chinese market for electronic waste recycling services will expand to around $15.8 billion a year, about 10 times the size of Taiwan's market; one large enough to be worth fighting for, Chu says.
According to the IDB, Taiwan's electronics manufacturing sector is good at handling electronic scrap, and China sought technical assistance from Taiwan in recycling its increasing waste more than once last year.
Prompted by the demand, the two sides are expected to open a workshop in May to provide interested businesses with information on possible cooperation in the fields of e-waste recycling and pollution control on electronics production lines, the IDB said. Focus Taiwan
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