Countries

    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    MCMC

    Organisation website:

    Visit the website

    Social:

    City:

    Cyberjaya

    Country:

    Malaysia

    Date(s):

    10-21 October 2022

    Activities:

    Public Campaign - Social media

    Description: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) propose to launch the new brand of our mobile e-waste (SIM-based e-wastes) recycling program; KITAR. KITAR literally translate to "cycle" in english where it is the programme aspiration to promote recycling as well as circular economy.

    Along with the launch, we will organise e-waste collection activity where licensed e-waste collector will be called to collect e-waste and deliver a talk on e-waste management especially the recycling process.
    Participant

    Organisation Name:

    TUV Rheinland

    Organisation website:

    Visit the website

    Activity website:

    Visit the website

    Social:

    City:

    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

    About

    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.

    Transparency Register ID 702397445-73.

    Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved

    Privacy Policy

    Contact

    BluePoint conference and
    business centre
    Boulevard Auguste Reyerslaan 80
    B-1030 Brussels
    Belgium

    Newsletter

    Subscribe to our mailing list to get the updates to your email inbox.