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Ｎｅｗ　Ｒｅｃｙｃｌｉｎｇ　Ｍｅａｓｕｒｅｓ 　　“China’s current recycling system is not yet completed and lacks related regulations and rules. In the meantime, private recyclers play an important role. ” 　　 　　LI Yue, a Beijing resident, intended to upgrade various electric appliances to coincide with the redecoration of his house three months ago. However, all the recyclers in the district could only offer RMB 20-50 for each machine. “I felt pressured to sell them though the price is low, since there’s no room in my house for storage,” Li said, frustrated. 　　 　　But the good news is Measures for Trade-in of Household Electric Appliances were introduced last July, which means consumers may receive a subsidy of as much as RMB 400 for each used appliance when replacing them. 　　In China, it is common to see recyclers riding tricycles through neighborhoods and alleys calling out to purchase unwanted gadgets. China抯 current recycling system is not yet completed and lacks related regulations and rules. In the meantime, privatoe recyclers play an important role. Statistics show that there are over 20 million private recyclers scattered throughout cities and towns. 　　According to Zhou Jing, secretary-general of the Changsha Resource Recycling Association, Hunan Province, there are now four major ways to dispose of scrapped home appliances: private recyclers who purchase them directly and then sell them to scrap markets in rural areas, where they are disassembled in a primitive manner; home appliance repair shops who repackage them to sell as second-hand goods; recycling enterprises who collect old ones from home-appliance dealers that pick them up by way of trade-in; and recycling centers in communities who reclaim used appliances and sell them to second-hand markets in southern China. Eighty percent of used home appliances are disposed of through one of the first two channels. 　　 　　Hidden Danger 　　 　　“Dismantlement by private recyclers often causes pollution, and the rate of recycling