The company has since 2018 collected and recycled over 6, 000 tons of e-waste.
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Enviroserve-Rwanda, Rwanda’s only e-waste recycling facility, has announced plans to collect old phones for recycling and dismantling, New Times reported, adding that only a handful of old gadgets get traced, properly disposed of and recycled. Others are dumped in inappropriate places, pausing serious health and environmental challenges, while some end up in small phone repair shops.
Olivier Mbera, the general manager of Enviroserve-Rwanda, the facility dedicated to electronic and electrical waste recycling, told the daily that while other types of e-waste were being collected there was no activity for old mobile phones. He added that plans to collect old phones are underway.
Mbera said that the facility can recycle up to 10,000 tons of e-waste a year, but that it is recycling at under 30 percent of capacity due to different challenges. The challenges include limited awareness raising on the dangers of e-waste and why e-waste should be disposed of properly, the moral attachment for electrical and electronic equipment where people don’t want to release their old equipment, and the lack of enforcement of e-waste management regulations.
The company has since 2018 collected and recycled over 6, 000 tons of e-waste. It was able to refurbish 7,500 computers, with 70 percent going to schools.
Courtesy: www.telecompaper.com
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