Wenjie Wu, Jingwei Wang, Yuan Zhou, and Chenglong Zhang
WEEE, Trade-in Program, Recycling System, China
The increasing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has become a global problem. In China, the inadequate WEEE take-back and recycling system has blocked the development of WEEE recycling industry. In order to find a better way to regulate the system, the center government has conducted the Waste Household Appliances Trade-in Program since June 2009, which will last until the end of 2011. The aims of this paper are to analyze the effects of this trade-in program and find out how to improve the take-back and recycling system. According to the results of relevant investigation, 40 million new household appliances were sold, correspondingly 41.16 million old ones were replaced, and 23.64 million waste electrical appliances were disassembled by authorized recycling factories by the end of February, 2011. For consumers and those qualified take-back companies, they will receive subsidies according to the type of household appliances. Generally, the transport subsidy varies from 20 to 50 RMB while the consumers’ subsidy 250 to 400 RMB. Promoted by the pilot program, the recycling factories get enough WEEE, so their equipments can begin to work in full load, even over load. However, new problems, such as unreasonable distribution of financial subsidy, complex tax-reduction policy, have been arising during the application of the program. To effectively solve these problems, the measures including perfecting the tax and subsidy policies, building the fund for recycling and disposal WEEE should be adopted.
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