Yet despite such legislative and market progress, collection of household EEEs in China remains dominated by the informal individual collectors – a type of specialized waste buyers who purchasing multifarious waste materials from households then selling collections to best price bidders afterwards. And informal recycling operation, being carried out through simple yet highly profitable workshop production manners and being driven by industrial demand for secondary materials and expanding rural markets for second-hand EEE, also grew up and flourish in areas such as Guiyu of Guangdong province and Taizhou of Zhejiang province, where large-scale primitive handlings of e-waste have been causing severe environmental and health consequences. Not surprisingly
because the informal collectors and recyclers absorb the majority
of e-waste from waste owners, extensive supply deficiency problems
in the developing formal recycling sector occur