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“Analysis of Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes” – published by adelphi
02. August 2021

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes – key elements of the circular economy – tend to perform better...

“Tackling fires caused by lithium batteries in e-waste” – A new report published by the WEEE Forum
30. July 2021

More and more electrical and electronic products in everyday life contain batteries, making life more convenient...

Job Posting at adelphi - Senior Advisor in the field of Circular Economy, Waste Management and Resource Efficiency
06. May 2021

To support their Circular Economy Programme, adelphi is looking for a full-time Senior Advisor (m/f/d) to start...

Green.net.working. – A virtual conference on Ecologically-Sustainable Digitalization in an International Context
30. April 2021

May19-20 2021 | 10:00am to 3:00pm CET Digitalization and increased...

Close the Gap & CTG Circular open a state of the art IT refurbishment centre in Mombasa, Kenya, for the East-African Region
31. March 2021

Close the Gap is an international social enterprise that aims to bridge the digital divide by offering high quality,...

The Future of Electric Vehicles and Material Resources: A Foresight Brief
03. November 2020

Electric vehicles (EVs) offer an opportunity to replace fossil fuels in the transport sector. Electrification...

E-Waste in Latin America – Join the upcoming webinars
26. October 2020

The UNIDO-GEF project, “Strengthening of National Initiatives and Enhancement of Regional Cooperation for the...

International E-Waste Day 2020
14. October 2020

Today we celebrate the International E-Waste Day. This day was developed in 2018 by the WEEE Forum with the support...

Closing the Loop teams up with Ingram Micro
24. August 2020

The Dutch firm Closing the Loop has...

Upcoming webinar "Partnerships between the informal and the formal sector for sustainable e-waste management"
18. June 2020

A StEP working group looked into different approaches to and case studies on current informal-formal partnership...

New StEP Publication available!
08. April 2020

The StEP paper “Case studies and approaches to building partnerships between the informal and the formal sector...

World Resources Forum (WRF) 2020: Call for Abstracts
22. January 2020

This year’s World Resources Forum (WRF...

Processing of WEEE Plastics: A Practical Handbook
11. December 2019

Valorizing the plastic fraction from WEEE is often challenging because different plastics need to be sorted by...

Country updates from Brazil and Peru
04. December 2019

Brazil In June this year, Brazil issued the “Sectoral Agreement for the Implementation...

LaWEEEda Latin American – European network on e-waste opens training centres
10. October 2019

The sound management and treatment of e-waste in Latin America has become a topic of growing concerns. As in other...