A public/private partnership, technical guidelines on environmentally sound management, and a massive open online course are amongst the measures tackling e-waste, the world’s fastest growing hazardous waste stream.

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This webinar will provide an overview of the different ways in which e-waste is regulated across the globe. Examples from different continents will be discussed and compared, including from the European Union, the United States, China, South America and Africa.

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The objective of these webinar sessions is to present key elements of the PACE guideline on environmentally sound testing repair and refurbishment of used computing equipment and concrete success stories of repair and refurbishment facilities established in developing countries or countries with economies in transition.

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Parties and others are invited to submit photographs to the Secretariat by 15^th January 2015, with a view to awards and exhibition at the 2015 COP in Geneva.

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Come and learn how Taiwan, province of China,  established its E-waste management system and on how rare trace materials, like gold, or bulk plastics, can be recovered and recycled from end-of-life computing equipment and more generally E-waste. This webinar will present examples of E-waste management systems complying with the PACE “Guideline”.

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Come and learn from two different USA perspectives, one from the private sector and the other one from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on how rare trace materials, like gold, or bulky like plastics, can be recovered and recycled from E-Waste. This webinar will present an example of processes for material recovery and recycling complying with the PACE “Guideline”.

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The 6th physical meeting of the PACE Working Group was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 23 to 25 September 2013. The meeting was organized by the Basel Convention Regional Centre in South Africa.

The Working Group reviewed the status of activities under PACE, obtained reports from co-chairs of the six project groups on their priority activities, reviewed and approved the PACE budget, and discussed which short- and long-term role PACE should play in view of the outcomes of the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in matters related to e-waste.

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Central American Workshop for Capacity Building on Environmentally Responsible Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). This event aims at providing a training on e-waste management and will promote the environmentally sound handling of used and end-of-life electronic equipment through the PACE guidelines and ITU-T Recommendations and Toolkit for the ICT Sector.

 

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