Evaluating the Feasibility of Effective E-Waste Management

TARGET GROUP: E-WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

OBJECTIVES

·        To investigate the prospects of improving e-waste management system and enable separation and recovery scheme to get output secondary raw materials containing ferrous metal scrap, non-ferrous scrap, plastics, batteries and glass thereby stimulating for a possible recovery of useful materials and involving local recycling companies who can benefit from these materials.

SUMMARY

In the country, there is a rising tide of e-waste generated by domestic consumption of electrical and electronic equipment. The rate at which electronic gadgets are flooding the local market is contributing to the increase of e-waste. There is no known environmentally friendly method to dispose e-waste in the country.” The current rate of e-waste accumulation is not sustainable as Harare’s limited dumpsites are fast filling up. Thus there was need to investigate the available opportunities for collecting and recycling used electronic equipment to minimise solid e-waste that would go to the landfill with a possibility of recovering any useful materials from this waste, with the aim of coming up with recommended ways of collecting, handling and disposing e-waste as well as evaluating the feasibility of recovering any useful materials from e-waste.” In the same vein, economic ways of undertaking this will be interrogated as well as developing sustainably cheap methods to handle e-waste. Recycling of e-waste will have various benefits to the community as well as reducing solid waste to the designated dumpsites. The handling of e-waste will be undertaken sustainably to reduce unnecessary deposition of e-waste on the available landfill site

REFERENCE

http://www.ieomsociety.org/ieom2020/papers/278.pdf