Legal aspects of the problem of electronic waste disposal in Russia and China

Abstract

The problem of recycling the ever-increasing volume of electronic waste is relevant today for most countries of the world. The extremely high potential of this type of waste to cause environmental damage, forces governments to look for new ways and technologies for the collection, processing and disposal of electronic waste. Russia and China are states in which legislation regulating the handling of electronic waste has been developing rapidly in recent years. At the same time, the main problem in our country can be called the lack of necessary production facilities for the processing of obsolete equipment, as well as the lack of an effective system for collecting used electronic devices. In turn, in China, the recycling of electronic devices for the secondary use of their components is an entire industry, the regulation of which is fraught with certain difficulties.