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The E-waste handover facility in Accra has received over 900 tonnes of electronic waste since its commissioning in October 2024. The materials include e-waste cables, mixed batteries, thermoplastics, ...
The theme for Saturday’s programme was ‘e-Check’ aimed at collecting and reusing electronic waste from homes and shops in both towns and rural areas. Mr. Narayana stressed the need for the ...
Amid a sharp fall in the capacity utilisation levels of recyclers after domestic electronics goods manufacturers challenged e-waste management rules in court, the Material Recycling Association of ...
Regional E-waste Awareness Conference on Sustainable E-waste Management in the African Region with the Theme'': 'Advancing Sustainable E-waste Management in East Africa: Embracing Extended ...
New Jersey's Electronic Waste Management Act prohibits consumers from throwing away covered electronic devices. If not properly disposed of, electronic devices can produce toxic chemicals ...
NEW DELHI: The Central and state governments are losing nearly Rs 80,000 crores of revenue every year to the informal e-waste sector, including unavailability of formal recycling infrastructure in ...
THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has announced that effective January 1, 2025, people wishing to export waste electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste) will be subjected to ...
Our growing reliance on technology at home and in the workplace has raised the profile of e-waste. This consists of discarded electrical devices including laptops, smartphones, televisions ...
The international treaty, which came into effect in 1992 and continues to count Uganda as a party, started red-flagging e-waste in 2006.The landfills dotting the country teem with evidence that ...
E-waste is trafficked as reusable goods into several poorer countries then either burnt or dumped after valuable metals have been extracted You can see thick plumes of smoke rise from the ...
SINGAPORE – Residents islandwide can get their bulky electronic waste such as refrigerators, washing machines and televisions collected from their doorsteps for free from 2025. Waste management ...
The number of e-waste collection points located across Singapore has increased from 300 — in July 2021 — to about 870, Dr Khor noted in her speech at an event at Westgate mall to mark ...