Recycling cars is a better use of resources
Editor's note: The State Council, China's Cabinet, unveiled a new regulation on the recycling of scrapped vehicle last week. The document will take effect from June 1, meanwhile the old regulation that was issued in June 2001 will be abolished. Legal Daily comments:
About 10 million cars are taken off the country's roads each year, mainly because their emissions cannot meet the national standards. But the market value of the scrapped cars means that they often appear on the roads again, even though the existing regulation stipulates they can only be melted down.
A survey by Xinhua News Agency indicates only 30 percent of the scrapped cars end up in legal disassembling plants, with most of the rest being renovated and resold through various channels, particularly in rural areas.
