Panasonic will cooperate with Hangzhou Dadi Environmental Protection Engineering Company Ltd., Dowa Holdings Company Ltd., and Sumitomo Corporation to form a jointly-held company, Panasonic Dadi Dowa Summit Recycling Hangzhou Company Ltd., in China.

British retail chain operator Tesco Plc recently announced that it established a partnership with Lenovo Group to develop a green IT project in China.

China's Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Environmental Protection have jointly published a "Home Appliances Trade-in Promotion Program", stating that from June 1, 2010, the policy will be launched in 19 additional provinces and cities, in addition to the existing nine pilot provinces and cities, and the implementation period of the policy [...]

To control and reduce environmental pollution caused by electronic information product waste, the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China have jointly announced plans to establish a national electronic information product pollution control certification system in China.

According to reports in local media, the one-year-old home appliances trade-in policy, which was supposed to conclude at the end of May 2010, has been prolonged to the end of 2011 in Beijing, and the subsidy rates remain unchanged.

A letter of intent has been signed between Yandu District of Yancheng in Jiangsu province and the China Electronics Enterprises Association at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the building of an eco-friendly electronic industrial park in Yandu.

Bamboo from a forest in Jiangxi will soon be part of some of Dell's computer packaging used around the world.

After a two-month preparation period, Beijing has formally launched its home appliances and electronics "old-for-new policy" and the detailed implementation regulations have also been published.

According to Dell (DELL), starting from October 10, 2008, the company launched a three-day IT products recycling activity at the door of Buynow computer store in the Pudong area of Shanghai.

Shanghai has seen the appearance of boxes with the three colors of blue, green and orange for the reclamation of old mobile phones from which useful metals are expected to be taken.

Chinese home appliance retailer Gome has announced plans to reclaim used mobile phones at its chain stores across the country in an effort to create a green industry chain for mobile phone consumption.

Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce has published the results of lithium ion batteries circulated in Beijing markets, which shows that 16 kinds of batteries are unqualified in discharge performance or recycle longevity.