Dump the old technology in Japan

Living in Japan, I often saw our travels around the area a small truck with calls for the surrender of old electronics and appliances. It does not matter whether or not working - they could pick her out of the house, thus saving residents from the complexities of recycling. But what happens then I do not know, And once, in Niigata prefecture, we met a large area laden with mountains of televisions, printers, and washing machines. An employee told us that this technique is not for sale to the population, and to send to China to parse the parts and materials. Something of this still works, but it does not matter - even to close the technology awnings from possible rain. When we drove cars and one unloaded more and more instances of