Environment
THE Director General of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, Prof. Aliyu Jauro, is to deliver the keynote address at the 2022 ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue slated for Thursday, December 8, in Lagos.
The Group Executive Editor, ITREALMS Media, Remmy Nweke, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos, said that the theme of this year’s event was “e-Waste: Recycle it all, no matter how small”.
According to the statement, Prof. Jauro will use the opportunity to share some insights on what NESREA is doing and future of recycling it all, no matter how small!.
Nweke explained that ITREALMS Media Inc. is holding the event in commemoration of the International E-waste Day (IeWD) 2022, under its flagship ITREALMS e-Waste Dialogue.
He noted that Nigeria is principally hampered by the Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE, with estimated 1.1 million tonnes of e-waste annually arising from both local and imported Electrical and Electronic Equipment, EEE, under the guess of second hand or fairly used goods.
Nweke disclosed that this year’s commemoration of the International E-Waste Day focuses on small, end-of-life electrical and electronic appliances, which present a significant challenge with items such as cell phones, electric toothbrushes, toasters and cameras often discarded incorrectly.
Recalling that in 2019, the United Nations, UN, estimated that over 22 million tonnes of small e-waste were produced worldwide, which accounts for about 40 per cent of 57 million tonnes of all e-waste arising globally.
Besides, he noted, the objective of ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue is to examine the challenges and opportunities of end-of-life of electrical and electronics equipment that enables connectivity, especially on mobile computing devices; bringing together various manufacturing and recycling companies in order to raise awareness and exchange knowledge of this complex waste stream and support the small and medium industries and invariably propel growth.
ITREALMS e-Waste Dialogue also targets stakeholders involved in the management of business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure WEEE, especially from the industrial sector as well as the NCC and NESREA, ALTON, ATCON, CPN, NCS, EPRON members and international organisations.
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