- New StEP Regional Focal Points appointed
During their virtual gathering StEP members appointed the Thai Electrical and Electronic Institute StEP Regional Focal Point for South East Asia, the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre China StEP Regional Focal Point for East Asia, and Griffith Universi ... read more
- South Pacific Regional E-waste Workshop
South Pacific Regional E-waste Workshop Sofitel Hotel, Brisbane, Australia 21 July 2010 Challenges and Strategies for Environmentally Sound Management of E-waste in the South Pacific Region Context Electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) is one ... read more
- BCCC and University of Illinois new StEP members
The virtual gathering of StEP members confirmed the membership of the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the Sustainable Electronic Initiative at the University of Illinois. ... read more
- New Co- Coordinators of TF Capacity Building
Since 1st April 2010 Jaco Huisman (UNU & TU Delft) and Claudia Luepschen (UNU) jointly co-coordinate StEP's Task Force Capacity Building. ... read more
- New Co-Coordinator TF3 elected
Since 1st April 2010 Colin Fitzpatrick (University of Limerick) joined John Dickenson (AER Worldwide) in co-coordinating StEP Task Force ReUse. ... read more
- New Co-Coordinator TF4 elected
Since 1st April 2010 Jason Linnell (NCER) joined Mathias Schluep (EMPA) in co-coordinating StEP Task Force ReCycle. ... read more
- Revised White Paper "WEEE Recast"
In light of recent discussions on the WEEE Recast within the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative, StEP has revisited three passages in the StEP published White Paper "On the Revision of EU’s WEEE Directive – COM(2008)810 final". Based on the ... read more
- Inviting applications for the second NVMP-StEP E-waste Summer School 2010.
The United Nations University, hosting the Secretariat of the StEP Initiative is inviting applications for the second NVMP-StEP E-waste Summer School 2010. Doctoral students, final year master students and post-docs currently researching on e-waste and ... read more
- 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
- 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
