TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations
AU - Lin, Siyi
AU - Man, Yu Bon
AU - CHOW, Ka Lai
AU - Zheng, Chunmiao
AU - WONG, Ming Hung
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control (No. 2017B030301012), and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control. Additional support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41890852). The authors would like to thank Ms. Ursula Absalom, MA, for improving the text.
Funding Information:
Additional support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41890852). The authors would like to thank Ms. Ursula Absalom, MA, for improving the text.
PY - 2020/1/17
Y1 - 2020/1/17
N2 - China was the world’s largest importer of e-waste in the 2000s, with e-waste entering the country via different pathways. It was treated informally by using primitive techniques. Since the 2010s, the quantities of illegal importation have been gradually decreasing as China started to amend and enforce the importation ban policy. The amount of imported e-waste is predicted to disappear in the coming decades if China keeps to her stringent enforcements. Being a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, Hong Kong (HK) pursues an independent judiciary, rule of law and retains a free trading policy. As such, a substantial amount of e-waste has entered HK, and is stored in the northern part of the New Territories (NT). Some of the e-waste has been dismantled and recycled, jeopardizing the local environmental and the human health of this increasingly affluent city. This article reviews the effects of the new movement of global e-waste, to find out whether the same mistakes made in China are being repeated in HK, in particular, the environmental and health impacts of recycling e-waste. In addition, the management strategies to deal with the problems in this densely populated city are also summarized. (Figure presented.).
AB - China was the world’s largest importer of e-waste in the 2000s, with e-waste entering the country via different pathways. It was treated informally by using primitive techniques. Since the 2010s, the quantities of illegal importation have been gradually decreasing as China started to amend and enforce the importation ban policy. The amount of imported e-waste is predicted to disappear in the coming decades if China keeps to her stringent enforcements. Being a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, Hong Kong (HK) pursues an independent judiciary, rule of law and retains a free trading policy. As such, a substantial amount of e-waste has entered HK, and is stored in the northern part of the New Territories (NT). Some of the e-waste has been dismantled and recycled, jeopardizing the local environmental and the human health of this increasingly affluent city. This article reviews the effects of the new movement of global e-waste, to find out whether the same mistakes made in China are being repeated in HK, in particular, the environmental and health impacts of recycling e-waste. In addition, the management strategies to deal with the problems in this densely populated city are also summarized. (Figure presented.).
KW - Environmental and health impacts
KW - global movement
KW - Hong Kong soils
KW - soil remediation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067688553&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10643389.2019.1619377
DO - 10.1080/10643389.2019.1619377
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067688553
SN - 1064-3389
VL - 50
SP - 105
EP - 134
JO - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
IS - 2
ER -
