2010-02-22 - Urgent Need to Prepare Developing Countries for Surge in E-Wastes
Rocketing sales of cell phones, gadgets, appliances in China, India, elsewhere forecast Proper e-waste collection, recycling key to recovering valuable materials, protecting health, building new green economy Bali, 22 February 2010 – Sales of e ... read more
2010-02-11 - Secretariat of the Basel Convention and TechSoup new StEP Members
All StEP Members have carefully reviewed the’s applications of the (i) the Secretariat of the Basel Convention (Geneva/Switzerland) and (ii) TechSoup (San Francisco, United States) to become a StEP Member. In a recent polling their membership was approv ... read more
2010-02-05 - StEP and Basel Convention’s PACE to increase e-waste cooperation
In joint meetings on 1st Febr. 2010 and 4th Febr. 2010 the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative and Basel Convention’s Partnership for Computing Equipment (PACE) agreed to further strengthen its e-waste related cooperation and harmonization of ... read more
2009-12-31 - Guido Sonnemann (UNEP) new Chair of the StEP Steering Committee
The StEP Steering Committee (SC) has a voluntary Chair appointed all the time. The Chair appointment is rotated amongst elected SC members at least every 1st July and 1st January. With 1st January 2010, the Chair of StEP’s Steering Committee will pas ... read more
2009-12-22 - StEP re-assess three passages of the StEP White Paper "On the Revision of EU’s WEEE Directive – COM(2008)810 final"
In light of recent discussions on the WEEE Recast within the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative, the StEP Secretariat would like to inform that there are three passages in the StEP published White Paper On the Revision of EU’s WEEE Directive ... read more
2009-10-01 - StEP White Paper On the Revision of EU’s WEEE Directive COM(2008)810 final
Many StEP members have good first-hand experience with the practical application of the current European Union Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) 2002/96/EC. During the process of scrutiny of the Directive, StEP and its members ... read more
