Back to: SRI Online Training on E-Waste Management

 

 

Introduction

In this module, we’ll be looking at the E-waste recycling value chain, Formal and informal sector partnership, Waste management systems and strategies, Financing recycling operations and the Strategies for consumer awareness.

4.1: E-waste recycling value chain

  • EEE value chain
  • Recycling value chain
  • Stakeholders in the recycling value chain
  • Structure in the WEEE value chain
    • Collection
    • Dismantling / pre-processing
  • Technologies in the value chain
    • Pre-processing technologies
      • Shredding
      • Sizing
      • Sorting
    • End-processing technologies
      • Recycling
      • Landfilling
      • Incinerating

4.2: Formal and informal sector partnership

  • The informal sector
  • Partnerships
  • Modes of collaboration between formal and informal sector
    • Case study 1: India
    • Case study 2: Peru
    • Case study 3: Nigeria
    • Case study 4: South Africa
    • Case study 5: Ghana
  • Shifting to a better system
    • Steps towards better cooperation

4.3: Waste management systems and strategies

  • Basics of environmentally sound management
  • Standards
  • Stakeholder’s responsibility
  • International examples
    • Switzerland
    • Germany
    • India
    • Ghana
    • Egypt
  • ISO 59014 example

4.4: Financing recycling operations

  • Economics of e-waste processing
    • Cost of accessing
    • Cost of collection
    • Cost of transport
    • Cost of treatment
  • Financing mechanisms
  • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • Ways of financing
    • EU model
    • Californian model
    • Japanese model
    • Chinese model
    • Ghanaian model

4.5: Strategies for consumer awareness

  • Public awareness
  • Communication methods
  • Examples
    • Greece
    • Belgium
    • UK
    • Egypt
  • Moving from worst to good practices with awareness raising