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What should we do with outdated electrical appliances? This will be more environmentally friendly.
According to data, China has entered the peak period of household appliances elimination and scrapping several years ago. The discarded electronic wastes such as televisions, computers, mobile phones and refrigerators contain a lot of toxic and harmful substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, PVC plastics and bromine flame retardants. Waste mobile phone parts contain arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and other harmful substances. Will it be healthy for your family if you leave them at home for a long time? Invisible killer? . The chip of electronic waste such as portable computers and electronic dictionaries contains cadmium, which will cause irreversible damage to lungs, kidneys and bones. The shell part and wire sheath of small household appliances are PVC, which will produce dioxins and furans when heated and burned, which is extremely toxic and carcinogenic; Shell plastics contain flame retardants, which may lead to endocrine disorders, induce nerve damage and increase the risk of lymphatic cancer.

The public is only discussing and advocating environmental protection, and there is no specific environmental protection behavior. Driven by interests, many used household appliances are taken away by street harvesters, violently dismantled and polluted the environment. I don't know that recycling used household appliances for environmental protection is also making a little contribution to our environment. In environmental protection enterprise factories, old household appliances can be disassembled into many reusable resources. Take television for example. After the TV is disassembled, the wires will be directly recycled, and the remaining glass, shell and other parts will be crushed into particles, which will be classified and collected through professional separation and screening. Products such as phosphor, electron gun and circuit board will be further refined to obtain rare earth, copper, gold and silver. However, the high cost of environmental protection makes the recycling price of waste household appliances lower, which is unacceptable to many people. On the contrary, workshop disassembly does not consider environmental protection treatment, which has low treatment cost and great advantages in recycling price.

Television, refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine and other household appliances have become inseparable things in the lives of ordinary people. More and more electronic products are upgraded, and more and more electrical and electronic products are upgraded. What should I do?

The most popular service for consumers is the trade-in of home appliances. Although the trade-in policy has been withdrawn, many e-commerce and home appliance companies still provide their own trade-in services.

By recycling the website platform, according to the classification of websites, consumers can sell their eliminated home appliances at satisfactory prices through horizontal price comparison. The recycling of waste household appliances is related to environmental protection and safety. The perfection of recycling system depends on market norms and policy support, and also needs consumers to improve their cognitive level to avoid old household appliances from entering informal channels.