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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...

Discussions on e-waste, climate change and more at the 9th Green Standards Week in Valencia
09. October 2019

The City of València hosted the ...

New publication "Future E-Waste Scenarios"
09. September 2019

This joint publication between StEP, UNU, and UNEP IETC makes an attempt to look into the future of the problem...

ORAMA Webinars: UNU / WEEE Forum / TUB / EMPA/ CHALMERS / GEUS
09. September 2019

Data Optimisation for Secondary Raw Materials A cornerstone of the European Investment...

New members of StEP Supervisory Committee
21. June 2019

We are pleased to announce that Eelco Smit and Garth Hickle join the StEP Supervisory Committee! Both are well-known...