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WasteCon'08, 6-10 October 2008, Durban / South Africa - SPECIAL EVENT ON E-WASTE

Submitted by mathias on Mon, 2007-10-15 11:00.

 



 

WEEE Technical Session & Workshop

Status and challenges for the management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in Africa

 


 Keynote - 7 October 2008
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of South African E-waste Scenario (K. Anderson)
 Technical session - 7 October 2008, 16:00-17:30
  • ReLCD Recycling And Re-Use Of LCD Panels (B. Kopacek)
  • What happens when the lights go out? (J. Lombard)
  • Case Study : Multi Life Cycle Center (B. Kopacek)
 Technical session - 8 October 2008, 08:30-12:20
  • The Swiss global e-waste programme (R. Widmer, M. Schluep, S. Denzler)
  • Transboundary movement of e-waste (L. Ecroignard)
  • India - Including the existing informal sector in a Clean e-Waste Channel (D. Rochat)
  • The development of a Cape Town based Regional Integrated e-Waste Management Facility - a replicable concept for sustainable e-waste management in developing countries (S. Dittke)
  • Morocco e-waste country assessment (S. Laissaoui)
  • e-Waste in Kenya: baseline assessment (M. Mureithi)
  • e-Waste generation and management in Uganda (M. Schluep)
  • Senegal - e-waste country assessment (S. Wone)
  • Setting up public e-waste collection points at the municipal level: successes and challenges of Pikitup's e-waste pilot programme (A. Finlay)
 Workshop - 8 October 2008, 14:00 - 16:00
This workshop aims to identify major challenges and strategies associated with the management of e-waste in African countries. The focus will be on facilitating discussion among workshop participants from various African countries and Europe to enable analysis of existing experiences and identification of suitable approaches to deal with challenges, including exploring the potential of local, regional and international solutions.
Introductory presentations:
  • E-waste management, industry view by Hewlett Packard (R. Janse Van Rensburg)
  • WEEE Label of Excellence - harmonisation of a common set of European standards for treatment and recycling and for monitoring of WEEE (R. Hediger)
  • Challenges and needs for the management of e-waste in Nigeria (O. Osibanjo)


Please register at www.wastecon2008.co.za

 

The WEEE technical session and workshop is funded by the project "e-waste management in Africa" which was launched by Hewlett Packard, the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) and Empa in 2007 with baseline studies in Kenya, Morocco and Senegal and an e-waste recycling pilot in Cape Town, South Africa. It is supported by StEP "Solving the e-Waste Problem". the e-Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA), the Swiss States Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) and Empa which are partnering in the "Knowledge Partnerships in e-Waste Recycling" programme since 2003.

 

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