Beijing will open the first electronics waste dismantling factory this year to dispose of the increasing e-waste of the city.

In answering citizen's question on solid waste and pollution, a representative from Beijing Municipal Environment Protection Administration said that the city would set up the e-waste dismantling factory at Majuqiao in Tongzhou District this year to dissolve waste and discarded electrical appliances. The factory will have an annual processing capacity of one million sets of home appliances.

The representative told local media that the factory won't do any harm to the environment of the surrounding areas.

At present, Beijing yields about three million sets of waste electrical appliances, totaling more than 100,000 tons each year. 90% of the waste appliances were gathered by individual collectors and the majority of them were sent to dumps in other provinces. They have caused great pollution to the environment due to insufficient processing methods and this new facility will hopefully diminish problems.