Rising up the political agenda

Abstract

Last year, Hewlett Packard (HP), the Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) supported baseline studies into e-waste management in Kenya, Morocco and Senegal. And recently, the partners also launched a pilot e-waste recycling project in South Africa. From such analyses, it can be concluded that, on the African continent, progress is being made in e-waste management but that substantial challenges still lie ahead.