The advisory panels of the trade and environment ministries basically agreed at a joint meeting Thursday to establish a recycling system for home-use personal computers separate from that for commercial-use PCs.
The envisaged system is expected to be introduced in fall 2003 at the earliest.
Consumers will be required to pay recycling fees when they buy new PCs and when they dispose of PCs they purchased before the scheme's introduction.
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