The Environment Ministry will promote the recovery of rare metals from small electrical appliances and at the same time reinforce control on their export to prevent them from being inappropriately disposed and causing pollution, it has been learned.
The ministry will submit a bill concerning the recycle of rare metals from small appliances to an ordinary Diet session next year.
The proposed legislation will make it mandatory for exporters to explain how products such as cell phones and digital cameras will be disposed overseas and how rare metals within them will be recovered for reuse. (Yomiuri)
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