An Eastern Cape technology start-up company is revolutionising electronic waste disposal and recycling in South Africa through a mobile unit dubbed the “e-shredder,” which will help private and public sector organisations to discard...
Networking, debate and lessons learnt were the order of the day at the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa’s (IWMSA) Eastern Cape branch’s waste management conference held from 14 to 15 October this year . With the theme of The Road to...
A USD2.3 million European Union (EU) LIFE (financial instrument for the environment) funded project – the Critical Raw Material Closed Loop Recovery – will explore opportunities for obtaining critical raw materials (CRMs) and precious metals from...
Department of Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa led a national consultative conference on e-Waste management, on Gauteng, 4 September 2015. E-waste is an increasing problem, clogging landfills with harmful substances, especially chemicals,...
The head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today stressed the need to limit the use of dangerous chemicals and to find a solution to the masses of electronic waste building up around the world. Speaking at a Conference of Parties...
The paper aims to communicate the issues associated with the sustainable management of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) in South Africa and the solution that the IT Association of South Africa Producer Environmental Group (ITA PEG) and the...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), leaders in the waste management industry, has urged South Africans to support eWASA and dispose of e-waste correctly. “The valuable and rare resources [found in e-waste] can be recovered...
As part of its ongoing commitment to encouraging recycling of mobile devices, launched in 2005, Orange promotes the creation of partnerships in Africa that aim to support the implementation of local initiatives To date 140 tonnes of waste have been...
The Ugandan Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has developed a National E-waste Management Strategy to deal with what has become one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. With support from the United Nations...
