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    Partner

    Organisation Name:

    United Nastions Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

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    City:

    Bonn, Brussels, Geneva, Nairobi, Osaka, Paris

    Countries:

    Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya, Switzerland

    Date(s):

    14.10.2023; 24.12.2023

    Activities:

    Public Campaign - Social media, Public Campaign - Internet news

    Description: UNITAR developed datasets for the IEWD 2023 on invisible e-waste and will be jointly publishing with ITU, UNEP and the Carmignac Fondation the next Global E-waste Monitor 2023 to be launched on 24 Dec. 2023.
    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    GET-IT Co., Ltd

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    City:

    Tokyo

    Country:

    Japan

    Date(s):

    The campaign takes place all through October (from October 1st to 31st) A press release about the campaign will be sent out on 8th October to the Japanese media. There will also be a radio interview of our company on 5th October on the topic of "E-waste".

    Activities:

    Business campaign Internet news, Business campaign - Radio news, News release

    Description: Get-It will run a campaign in October to coincide with IEWD. Besides offering 30% discount on data sanitization for companies that decide to sell their IT equipment, for each device, Get-It will procure a phone compensation with Closing the Loop through its “E-waste compensation” program. The campaign aims to raise awareness on circularity of IT devices and the finite resources contained in them.
    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    GET-IT Co., Ltd

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    City:

    Tokyo

    Country:

    Japan

    Date(s):

    2022/10/14

    Activities:

    Conference

    Description: GET-IT will hold an E-waste event on this day to create awareness about E-waste generation and give an opportunity to take action as ICT related companies. This event will be mainly consisted of the online contents  (webinars, videos) below. 

    1. BtoB interview sessions : ICT related companies’ interviews to exchange the case-activities and knowledge of E-waste reduction

    2. E-waste field report sessions: Report from who has been deeply involved with the field of E-waste


    We have several candidates as guests for these sessions but not yet fixed.
    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    GET-IT Co., Ltd

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    City:

    Tokyo

    Country:

    Japan

    Date(s):

    2023/10/20

    Activities:

    Conference

    Description: GET-IT holds an event, "E-wastream Japan 2023" in October. Our guest for this year's online session is Mr. Akira Sakaino from NTT Communications Corporation, who has been working for international collaboration between data spaces. He has rich experience in supply chain visualization, which is key technology to realize circular economy. We look forward to learn from his experience and discuss further possibility of this field with all participants. The session will be in Japanese.
    Participant

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    TUV Rheinland

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    World

    Countries:

    Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Republic Of, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Province Of China, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam

    Date(s):

    October 21

    Activities:

    Workshop

    Description: Making every Day Repair Day > with Intention, Policy, and Standards organized together with iFixit, TCO Development, World Economic Forum

    ICT products like computers, smartphones, etc are fundamental tools adding efficiency to our lives amongst other advantages.

    At the same time, NGO’s have highlighted challenges covering environmental, human and labour rights, and effective eWaste management for the Electronics industry.

     

    At the occasion of the eWaste Day 2021, Together Open Repair, and many others during this webinar, we’ll get a glimpse into the developments from the perspective of:

    • Policy measures such as EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan, Sustainable Products Initiative, Green public Procurement (GPP) criteria, etc.

    • industry initiatives to harmonize and fast track progress towards circular and fair ICT, with focus on Repairability


     

    Agenda

    1. Research/Policy/Strategy > Recorded message (WEF Mo Chatterji)/Rakesh Vazirani

    2. Hotspots to be tackled > Greenpeace East Asia (Ada Kong + August Rick)

    3. Its possible > iFixit (Kyle Wiens)

    4. Repairability within your purchasing decisions > TCO Development (Nick Liu)

    5. Standards to assess & safeguard > TUV Rheinland (Rakesh Vazirani)

    6. Q&A

    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    UNEP

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    Social:

    City:

    Osaka

    Country:

    Japan

    Date(s):

    14 October 2021

    Activities:

    Public Campaign - Social media

    Description: UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre will share some content on E-waste to raise public awareness via social media networks.

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    The WEEE Forum a.i.s.b.l. is an international association representing 51 producer responsibility organisations across the globe. Together with our members, we are at the forefront of turning the extended producer responsibility principle into an effective electronic waste management policy approach through our combined knowledge of the technical, business and operational aspects of collection, logistics, de-pollution, processing, preparing for reuse and reporting of e-waste. Our mission is to be the world’s foremost e-waste competence centre excelling in the implementation of the circularity principle.

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