The Global Metal Recycling Business, with a Focus on China

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  • ３Ｒイニシャティブとアジアの資源循環　　国際資源循環の現状と問題点―中国を中心として―
  • コクサイ シゲン ジュンカン ノ ゲンジョウ ト モンダイテン チュウゴク オ チュウシン ト シテ

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Abstract

It is well known that a rapidly growing Chinese economy has the highest dependence on global natural resources and scrap materials from overseas. Many developed countries, on the other hand, have grown dependent on China for low-cost thorough dismantling and sorting of their used equipment, including electric appliances and vehicles. A big change is taking place with regard to global resource circulation, and there is a definite focus on China. In China, although maintenance of a legal system is progressing, the environmental protection infrastructure is still decisively inade-quate and serious environmental issues arise continuously. In order to convert into a truly powerful recycling player, it will be necessary for China to earnestly raise consciousness in the areas of environmental preservation and waste management, to introduce rational market practices, and to fully revamp and modernize its recycling activities. For example, through a switchover to integrated copper-lead complex smelters. Moreover, trade in scrap materials should not be assumed to be a one -sided flow to China. Bilateral, supplementary responses by developed countries are required with regard to the difficulties that arise in the processing of scrap and compound materials, and so forth.

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  • Waste Management Research

    Waste Management Research 17 (2), 78-85, 2006

    Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management

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