<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schluep, Mathias</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dittke, Susanne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Newson, Gerry</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kane, Cissé</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hieronymi, Klaus</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Material Recovery Facility in Cape Town, South Africa, as a replicable concept for sustainable e-waste management and recycling in developing countries</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008 Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">E-waste recycling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">manual dismantling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">refurbishing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">waste-to-art</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12.10.2008</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ewasteguide.info/files/2008_Schluep_REWAS.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ewasteguide.info/files/2008_Schluep_REWAS_slides.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cancun, Mexico</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">E-waste is currently the fastest growing waste stream in South Africa as well as in many other&lt;br /&gt;
African countries. Informal collectors, dismantlers and recyclers based in Africa play an&lt;br /&gt;
increasingly larger role in the processing of e-waste under generally unacceptable social and&lt;br /&gt;
environmental conditions. In direct response to this trend, and as part of Hewlett Packard’s&lt;br /&gt;
international Extended Producer Responsibility, the project “e-Waste Management in Africa”&lt;br /&gt;
was started in 2007 in cooperation with the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) and the Swiss&lt;br /&gt;
Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa). This project is investigating the&lt;br /&gt;
e-Waste situation in various African Countries, including South Africa, while actively supporting&lt;br /&gt;
the development of practical, socially just and environmentally acceptable local e-waste&lt;br /&gt;
management solutions.&lt;br /&gt;
To this end, the project has been funding the development of a pilot project in Cape Town, South&lt;br /&gt;
Africa since February 2008, supporting the start-up of a low tech/highly labour intensive material&lt;br /&gt;
dismantling and recovery facility (MRF) for the pre-processing of e-waste. The aim is to test the&lt;br /&gt;
feasibility of an integrated value adding local e-Waste management system, designed to&lt;br /&gt;
maximize the potential of refurbishment, repair, re-use, dismantling and recycling of equipment,&lt;br /&gt;
with environmentally responsible disposal as a last resort only. The project also seeks to&lt;br /&gt;
incorporate the current informal e-waste processing activities, by transforming them into&lt;br /&gt;
sustainable and environmentally sound operations. The MRF acts as a nucleus, raising&lt;br /&gt;
awareness, and providing training and education to previously disadvantaged individuals as a&lt;br /&gt;
means of creating opportunities for entrepreneurship in the technical maintenance, dismantling&lt;br /&gt;
and waste-to-art project sectors.&lt;br /&gt;
This study presents an analysis of the implementation of the MRF, presenting quantitative&lt;br /&gt;
massflow data, financial numbers and social indicators as well as challenges and opportunities&lt;br /&gt;
encountered in each phase. It will propose a blueprint concept for the sustainable instalment of&lt;br /&gt;
MRFs into the specific environment of developing countries.
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