A waste CRT TV recycle production line will be set up within 2008 by the Changhong Engineering Technology Center. Sichuan Changhong Group plans to build up the largest waste home appliance recycle base in Western China through further technology development, and industrial investments.

Waste home appliances are likely to pollute the environment, while on the other hand recyclable. Their recycle will benefit the home appliance cyclic economy. Changhong has been aware that the recycle of home appliances needs scalization and industrialization. Scalization lowers costs, and industrialization produces recycle channels and management systems, and better serves home appliance manufacturing.

So, Changhong set up a workgroup for the waste home appliance recycle project in 2006. In the early 2008, the Changhong Engineering Technology Center was established for the research and applications of green design, and resource regeneration technologies.

The home appliance recycle project has gotten nearly CNY 6 million of funds support from the Ministry of Industry and Informatization, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and the Sichuan government, revealed Pan Xiaoyong, director of the Changhong Engineering Technology Center.

All the key equipment, needed by Changhong's recycle line, are self developed by technicians of the group, Tsinghua University, and the China Home Electronics Appliances Research Institute (CHEARI).

Innocuous treatment has been done to CRT and circuit boards to avoid secondary pollution, such as screen glass and cone glass separation, graphite layer wipe-off, soldering tin wipe- off, and component separation.

To form a complete waste home appliance recycle system, an administrative regulation is due to be promulgated within 2008, and compulsorily implemented. From then on, home appliance makers will become responsible for recycling waste products, and special subsidy will be provided in the form of funds.

Distributors or after-sales services providers that refuse to take over waste home appliances from customers, or have not handed over waste products to qualified recyclers, would be amerced of up to CNY 100,000.

Currently, it is retail stores or peddlers that are handling the recycle of home appliances. In Beijing, old TVs sold to retail stores have a discount of CNY 80 to CNY 100 per unit. The discount provided by peddlers is CNY 120 per unit. As to old computers, their offers are usually less than 20% of the original prices.

Computer recycle bins seem to give a higher offer: CNY 100 for monitors, CNY 150 for computer cases, and CNY 20 for keyboards, mouse, and sound boxes, totally 30% to 40% higher than the offers by peddlers.

Just like Dr. Pan Xiaoyong has said, no companies can have long-term development without a philosophy of recycle. As a growing enterprise, Changhong targets sustained development, and hopes that recycle philosophy would sink deep into the hearts of every consumer.