Work on ICTs and the environment: WEEE Regulations: 1 st public briefing on WEEE at the House of Lords in 2004 Published two WEEE guides for business in 2004 and 2007 Worked with the FRN since 2005 – submissions to consultations Lobbied effectively for the prioritisation of reuse over recycling 1 st non profit EA licenced AATF in June 2007 Campaign against toxic trade sept 2008 - Lobbied for the Environment Agency to be provided with the resources to pursue e-waste cowboys WEEE Roundtable discussions – December 2009 Continue to feed into work of the WEEE Working Groups e.g. reuse standard, WEEE Directive recast Resource and capacity-building support for CFSK in establishment of recycling facility in Kenya to take-back and dismantle for recycling the end-of-life PCs from their own projects – this centre is set to expand, including linking up with Safaricom for mobile recycling. What cannot be recycled locally (some plastics and metals are handled on domestic market, more complex parts eg printed circuit boards, CRTs are exported to Europe for recycling) See - http://bit.ly/eV50AU Appointment of full-time environmental advocacy officer, working on WEEE issues in general as well as with partners in the West Balkans on an EU-funded programme, to help establish e-waste legislation and management systems in their countries.
Students using Computer Aid donated PCs in Selam Orphanage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia REFERENCES European Environmental Bureau (EEB) 2010. Designing greener electronic products: Building synergies between EU product policy instruments or simply passing the buck? Available at: http://bit.ly/fmwppK Electronic TakeBack Coalition (ETBC) 2009. E-waste: the exploding global electronic waste crisis. Available at: http://bit.ly/enA1j4 ETBC 2010. Quickly Obsolete. Available at: http://bit.ly/hc2Tu7 Greenpeace 2008. Toxic Tech: not in our backyard . Available at: http://bit.ly/bypCx8 Grossman E. 2006. High tech trash: digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health . Washington, D.C: Island Press. Grossman E. 2010. Tackling high-tech trash: the e-waste explosion and what we can do about it Dēmos . Available at: http://bit.ly/cDlj7B James P. and Hopkinson L. 2009. Energy and Environmental Impacts of Personal Computing: A Best Practice Review prepared for the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) Widmer R. et al. 2005. Global perspectives on e-waste. Env. Impact Asses. Rev. 25: 436-458. Williams, E. 2003. ‘Environmental impacts in the production of personal computers’ (pp. 41-72) in Williams, E. et al. (Eds.) Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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