E Waste Management

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E Waste Management Ugandas Journey
Forum on Environmentally Sound Management of
E-waste in Latin America Montevideo, Uruguay 12
March, 2014
Smart Sustainable Cities - 2014
Dickson Kwesiga Uganda Communications Commission
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Current Status

• The E-Waste Challenge
• Knowledge, Attitudes Perceptions
• Policy and Legal Framework
• Current Practices
• Regulation at entry points
• Regional Collaboration

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Current Practices
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Existing Facilities

• Various Informal Recyclers
• Uganda Cleaner Production Center
• East African Compliant Recycling Facility
  (Nairobi)
• WEEE Center (Nairobi, Kenya)
• The E-waste Solutions Alliance for Africa (UK)
  Pilot Project

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Subscriber Trends
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Key Challenges in Uganda

• Rapidly increasing e-waste volumes
• Limited studies about quantities of e-waste
• Low level of awareness ( poor perceptions)
  among consumers
• E-waste workers have little or no knowledge of
  toxins in e-waste

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Policy Strategies

• Establishment of E-waste Management
  Infrastructure
• Awareness and Education
• Legal Framework
• Human Resource Development
• Resource Mobilization
• E-Waste Fund

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Investments in Infrastructure

1. Carry out ongoing e-waste surveys and assessment
   of mass flows to inform e-waste management
   interventions
2. To establish and maintain a data base for
   imported and exported EEE
3. Initiate and implement pilot projects, for
   collection, recycling and treatment of e-waste
4. Facilitate formation of e-waste collection
   schemes through formalization, licensing
   setting targets for each scheme
5. Provide training for e-waste scheme operators
6. Promote take- back systems with incentives for
   consumers
7. Promote EEE leasing for bulk consumers

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Investments in Infrastructure

• Set up national modern dismantling and recovery
  facility in partnership with the private sector
• Mainstream training in e-waste recovery and
  dismantling skills in technical institutions
  curriculum
• Explore options for disposal of hazardous e-waste
  components, through treatment or sale to
  competent firms
• Engage EEE producers and original equipment
  manufacturers (OEM) in strategic partnerships,
  including buy back systems, extended producer
  responsibility and setting up recovery and
  dismantling facilities.
• Participate in regional and international fora on
  best e-waste management practices

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Ongoing Policy Implementation

• Feasibility study to establish volumes of E-waste
• An e-waste management strategy was drafted
• Plans are underway for the establishment of a
  manual E-waste dismantling plant
• In collaboration with the E-waste Solutions
  Alliance for Africa UK, a pilot is underway for
  establishment of an E-waste collection system

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Thank You

• DICKSON KWESIGA