NTDTV englishnews2011.10.18---Mexico Takes E-waste Re-cycling to New Level

NTDTV englishnews2011.10.18---Mexico Takes E-waste Re-cycling to New Level
Mexico Takes E-waste Re-cycling to New Level
Mexico City is taking electronic waste recycling to a new level of efficiency. Whereas the United States recycles only 20 percent of obsolete computer components, one Mexican company says it is retrieving 98 percent of the material from old computers and cellphones for re-use.

Mexico has realized it can do far more to recycle electronic waste ranging from mobile phones to freezers since most ends up on dumps despite years of collection efforts.

That is why the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico (IPN), together with recycling companies Electronic Recycling Mexico (REMSA) and Recall International, set up six collection centers around Mexico City last month.

The objective of the campaign was to create awareness among the population of contamination generated by electronic waste as well as the importance of generating environmentally-friendly ways to dispose of it.

[Gabriela Chavez, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico]:
"The idea is to educate the community to take responsibility for a good they bought which has dangerous components, which can lead to cancer or heavy metals which can contaminate aquifers, lands because their disposal is not controlled."

Businessman, Israel Cruz, says consumers are not aware that they are meant to recycle equipment and have not been informed of the toxicity of the waste or its environmental impact.

According to IPN, 50 percent of electronic waste remains under storage and nearly 30 percent is not properly disposed of in Mexico.

REMSA invested 30 million pesos to build an electronic cluster recycling plant in Queretaro, near Mexico City.

The plant collects, separates and recycles electronic waste from cell phones, computers, copy and fax machines, typewriters and printers.

Workers at the company extract 98 percent of the components for reuse, transferring just two percent to the landfill.

[Alvaro Nunez, Director of Recycling Company REMSA]:




"In Europe and the United States everything is crushed because it is expensive to pay workers, but crushing the material does not guarantee the final product is usable because a lot of materials are mixed."

Financing of collection, treatment and recovery of waste was absorbed by the reselling of extracted materials.

This allowed consumers to return waste free of charge.

墨西哥注意到電子廢物循環再造新台階
墨西哥城是電子廢物循環再造一個新的效率水平。而美國回收過時的電腦元件只有20％，一個墨西哥公司說，它是獲取 98％的再利用的舊電腦和手機材料。

墨西哥已經意識到它可以做更多的回收電子廢物，從移動電話到冰櫃以來最上轉儲，儘管多年的收集工作。

這就是為什麼國家理工學院在墨西哥（IPN），連同回收公司電子回收墨西哥（REMSA）和召回國際，墨西哥城附近設立 6個收集中心上個月。

該運動的目標是建立電子廢物以及產生環保的方式處置的重要性產生污染的人口之間的意識。

[加布里埃拉查韋斯，墨西哥國立理工學院]：
“我們的想法是，他們買了這危險的組件，因為他們的處置是不可控的，可導致癌症或重金屬可污染含水層，土地一個良好的社會教育責任。”

商人，以色列克魯茲說，消費者不知道，他們是為了回收設備並沒有被告知廢物的毒性或對環境的影響。

據互穿網絡，50％的電子廢物仍然在存儲和近30％是在墨西哥沒有妥善處置。

REMSA投資 30億比索，建立電子集群回收廠在克雷塔羅墨西哥城附近。

植物收集，分離和回收電子廢物，從手機，電腦，複印和傳真機，打字機和打印機。

公司職工提取98％的組件重用，只有兩成轉移到垃圾填埋場。

[阿爾瓦羅努涅斯，回收公司REMSA主任]：




“在歐洲和美國的一切都被粉碎支付工人的，因為它是昂貴的，但破碎的材料並不能保證最終產品混合使用，因為很多材料。”

融資的收集，處理和廢物回收倒賣提取材料吸收。

這讓消費者返回免費的浪費。