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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. So how do we close the loop on e-waste? While consumer education is an important way to ensure that electronics owners dispose of, repair or recycle their waste responsibly, product design — e. To that end, e-waste policies on the continent are increasingly introducing extended producer responsibility EPR , which makes the producers of electronic devices responsible for the take-back, recycling and final disposal of the electronics.
In , a majority of the 13 African countries that have adopted e-waste policies and regulations incorporated EPR schemes in one form or another. Such policies are intended to encourage producers to design recyclable products, and to help align the ecosystem towards a circular economy by ensuring reverse logistics. But while these e-waste policies are gaining ground, their implementation is still in its infancy, and the lack of synchronisation between the formal and informal sector is creating market inefficiencies.
This includes costs related to treatment, de-pollution and proper disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous fractions, as well as the proof of legal compliance, quality and service level. This creates a race to the bottom in terms of responsible e-waste management.
So how does one create a level and responsible playing field? Going forward, fostering collaborations between the informal and formal sector is critical to closing the loopholes of safe e-waste management. The Solving the E-waste Problem initiative , an e-waste thought leader, recognises that such partnerships should be tailored to the local conditions and reflect the diverse value chain structures in different countries.
For example, while safely dismantling some types of hazardous e-waste requires some level of professionalisation, the collection of this waste could be organised through informal waste collector cooperatives, which have the expertise to identify different components of waste and can work in areas with low levels of waste collection infrastructure.
Another pioneering e-waste organisation is the WEEE Centre in Kenya, which has worked since to rewire e-waste management practices and coordinate the ecosystem in East Africa and beyond through over partnerships with businesses and institutions. Another model of collaboration is the producer responsibility organisation PRO , in which external organisations are authorised or financed by producers to handle e-waste management on their behalf as a response to EPR policies.
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