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International trade is recognized as a mechanism to optimally allocate resources including capital, labor, and materials at the global scale. Recently there has been increasing interest in the embodied environmental impacts of international trade, especially in emissions embodied in trade. Focusing on the environmental side, it is standard to ignore the environmental overhead of the labor (EOL), environmental...
High speed development of economy and huge population has made China become one of the biggest electronic consuming markets as well as the greatest e-waste generator gradually. About 20 million electronic household appliances and 70 million cell phones come to their end-of-life every year since 2001. However, China has not set up an integrated and effective reverse logistics system to collect, transport...
China plays an important role in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE, also known as e-waste) recycling around the world. Over 0.7 million people were employed for e-waste recycling industry in 2007, and 98% in the informal recycling sector. These informal e-waste recycling activities pose significant threats to the environment as well public health. Based on analysis of the current policies...
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