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China leads world in recycling major nonferrous metals
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-07 15:33 NANCHANG: China is ahead of the world in the recycling of major non-ferrous metals and it was an area in which there had been rapid development, said participants at an international forum which concluded Monday in eastern China's Jiangxi province.
The three-day forum on metals recycling was held in Fengcheng City. In 2008 China ranked the first in the world in the consumption of recycled copper, using approximately 2 million tonnes, or 30 percent of its total annual copper consumption. China also used 3 million tonnes of recycled aluminum, or 20 percent of its annual consumption; and nearly 1 million tonnes of recycled lead, 25 percent of consumption in 2008. The figures place China the second in the world in terms of annual consumption of recycled aluminum and lead. |