🔝
🔝
This page focuses on the management of electronics, the final stage of which all too often results in electronic
waste—or "e-waste"—that consists of used pieces of electronic equipment that are discarded or recycled in an
environmentally damaging manner. Minimizing e-waste is a core component of sustainable management of
electronics.
This page provides resources on general information as well as links to both government initiatives and non-
governmental organizations.
Electronic waste (e-waste) & sustainable electronics management
Information
E-Waste Information @ World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Effects of Exposure to E-Waste'
Periodicals
International cooperation
Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative (MPPI)
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) @ EEC
Sustainable electronics management
· 2017 Guide to Greener Electronics
Sustainable Management of Electronics @ USEPA
Initiatives
E-Trash Transparency Project @ BAN
E-Waste and Child Health Initiative @ WHO
E-Stewards Certification Initiative
• Seeks to promote environmentally friendly recycling practices in businesses worldwide.
EarthEye @ Basel Action Network (BAN)
Regional Cooperation on E-Waste Management in Latin-American Countries @ UNIDO
Solving the E-Waste Problem Initiative (StEP)
• serves as a great nexus to learn more about the StEP initiatives and similar initiatives who partner with StEP
• A bill to "control the export of electronic waste in order to ensure that such waste does not become the source of counterfeit goods that may reenter military
and civilian electronics supply chains in the United States, and for other purposes."
Professional associations
International E-Waste Management Netwrk (IEMN)
UN International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)
• "...works with developing countries to implement sustainable solutions to environmental challenges, with focus on holistic waste management."
NGOs
• these NGOs are unique in the sense that they are helping their own communities, rather than an NGO from another country stepping in (as E-waste is a
large issue in developing African nations).
Southern African E-Waste Alliance (SAEWA)
Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)
Pure Earth E-Waste Recycling in Ghana
Companies
Sammy Guttell of Brandeis University developed this page in 2019.
