Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations

Lin, Siyi1,2; Man, Yu Bon3; Chow, Ka Lai4; Zheng, Chunmiao1,2; Wong, Ming Hung1,2,3

2019-06-06

10.1080/10643389.2019.1619377

CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   影响因子和分区

1064-3389

1547-6537

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.

Environmental and health impacts global movement Hong Kong soils soil remediation

SCI ; EI

英语

第一 ; 通讯

National Natural Science Foundation of China[41890852]

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Environmental Sciences

WOS:000474072600001

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

20192607094165

Environmental protection ; Health ; Laws and legislation ; Recycling ; Soil conservation ; Soil pollution ; Wastes

Industrial Wastes:452.3 ; Environmental Impact and Protection:454.2 ; Medicine and Pharmacology:461.6 ; Soils and Soil Mechanics:483.1 ; Social Sciences:971

ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Soil & Groundwater Pollut, Sch Environm Sci & Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
2.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, State Environm Protect Key Lab Integrated Surface, Sch Environm Sci & Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
3.Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Sci & Environm Studies, Consortium Hlth Environm Educ & Res CHEER, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
4.Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Dept Geog, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

Lin, Siyi,Man, Yu Bon,Chow, Ka Lai,et al. Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations[J]. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,2019,50(2):105-134.

Lin, Siyi,Man, Yu Bon,Chow, Ka Lai,Zheng, Chunmiao,&Wong, Ming Hung.(2019).Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations.CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,50(2),105-134.

Lin, Siyi,et al."Impacts of the influx of e-waste into Hong Kong after China has tightened up entry regulations".CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 50.2(2019):105-134.