Recycling platform utilizes disused items

Demonstration project improves efficiencies by recovering valuable materials from old mobile phones, solar cells

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China launched a new demonstration project for the safe recycling and disposal of mobile phones in northern China's Tianjin and South China's Shantou of Guangdong province on Jan 18.

China Resources Recycling Group, a newly established centrally administered State-owned enterprise headquartered in Tianjin, became the first in the country to integrate online and offline operations for recycling, dismantling and smelting mobile phones.