World Recycling Forum: Incredible Hulks

Although China’s government and customs officers have been shoring up their defenses to prevent obsolete computers and television sets from being imported, an exception is being made for end-of-life vehicles. At a session at the World Recycling Forum, held in Hong Kong in mid-November, Scott Horne, general counsel of ISRI (the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc.), said a Chinese government official in Beijing had conveyed to him that shredder operators in China’s Jiangsu province had been granted permission to import flattened auto hulks. The policy change was confirmed by scrap recycler and equipment manufacturer Scott Newell of The Shredder Co., Canutillo, Texas, and scrap recycler Michel Dubois of Luxembourg-based Recylux Group, each of whom told attendees they had seen evidence of the new policy.

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World Recycling Forum: Incredible Hulks