In last a few years, the environmentally unsound way of E-waste was clearly identified in the certain cities in the Asian countries that E-waste was imported as second-hand products into the cities, dismantled under the environmentally unsound way and caused the serious adverse effects to human health and the environment. The residents in the cities are not aware that the existing manual methods to dismantle E-waste is caused the adverse effects to themselves, despite the fact that the governmental or municipal authorities have barely undertaken some measures, e.g. the preparation of the regulations.

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Municipality Project aimed to develop a new partnership for local hazardous waste mechanisms on the environmentally sound management, namely Type II Agreement (public-private partnership) between all stakeholders on hazardous waste management. BCRC China especially targeted to develop Type II Agreement in Qingdao, P.R.China, which is one of the industrial and organizational cities in China. Qingdao faces various environmental issues, e.g. hazardous waste management, wastewater treatment, etc. BCRC China has assisted Qingdao to establish Type II Agreement for hazardous waste
management and E-waste management. This approach was one of the first instances to have established Type II Agreement in Asia and the Pacific region and good instance to undertake hazardous waste management by a public-private partnership.

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