E-waste will be collected back to charging costs or passed on to consumers in 2011

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Environmental Protection that China's Regulations on the Administration of the Recycling of Waste Electrical and Electronic Products (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") will be formally implemented on January 1, 2011. By then, anyone who illegally handles waste electrical and electronic products will be fined a maximum of 500,000 yuan.

The "Regulations" stipulate that producers of electrical products must pay for waste electronic product disposal funds. The State implements a multi-channel recycling and centralized treatment system for waste electrical and electronic products, and implements a qualification and licensing system for its disposal. Those who have not obtained the qualification for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic products and engage in waste electrical and electronic product processing activities without authorization are identified by the competent department of environmental protection. The competent department of environmental protection of the people's government at or above the county level shall order the closure of the business, close it, confiscate the illegal income, and impose a fine of 50,000 yuan up to 500,000 yuan.

“This is definitely good news for home appliance processing companies.” Chen Gang, deputy secretary-general of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, stated that during the implementation of the home appliance trade-in policy, due to the increase in freight, labor costs and other expenses, as the recycling and dismantling of old household appliances The profits that companies receive from them are very low, and they rely mainly on state financial subsidies. Once the “Regulations” are implemented, the living environment for recycling and dismantling enterprises will certainly be greatly improved. "But for the home appliance manufacturers, the opposite is true, this part of the payment will be passed on to consumers." Chen Gang said.

An insider of a color TV manufacturer in China told reporters that the newly increased costs may eventually be transferred to consumers, resulting in passive prices of home appliances. He calculated an account for the reporter. According to this rule, every time a company produces a home appliance, it must pay tens of yuan worth of waste electrical appliance exhibition processing funds.

However, there are also home appliance manufacturers that the possibility of price increases is not great, an insider yesterday Haier Electronics told reporters that the short term is unlikely to increase prices, after all, the home appliance industry homogenization competition is almost to a white-hot degree, hastily raise the price risk too .

Industry insiders said that after the "Regulations" are implemented, the disposal of used household appliances will no longer be free, which will drive the development of the home appliance recycling industry. Even after the home appliance is shipped from the factory, it will take into account future dismantling and other issues, so that early events can be anticipated and designed in advance.