Abstract
China, as the largest producer, consumer and exporter of electrical and electronic (EE) products in the world, is facing great challenges in regulating its growing e‐waste as the result of domestic generation and illegal imports from overseas. The Government of China has gradually developed a regulatory framework for its e‐waste management. Existing and imminent e‐waste regulations encourage eco‐design in the EE industry, define the responsibility of various stakeholders and stipulate necessary measures for regulating e‐waste collection, dismantling and disposal. A special fund that aims to support the development of a formal e‐waste collecting and disposal sector will soon be set up. New measures have also been adopted to strengthen the control of illegal imports of e‐waste. To bring China's e‐waste regulation in line with that of foreign countries, China's regulation (or rule) on electronic information products (China's RoHs), equivalent to the EU's RoHS Directive, has also been implemented. This article gives a general account of China's regulatory framework for e‐waste management and points out some remaining challenges that China still faces in its e‐waste regulation.
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