Interview: “Electrical and Electronic Wastes Need Special Treatment”
Armel Poughela, Country Director of Solidarité Technologique.
Solidarite technologique is currently managing the first e-waste recycling centre in Central Africa on Cameroonian soil. Could you briefly explain to us how you carry out your activities?Lire aussi : Informal Dealers Coping But Fuelling Hazards
Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) needs special treatment and our NGO, Solidarité Technologique, through the WEEECAM project has so far been working day-in-day-out to ensure that this kind of waste is properly managed given its environmental hazards. According to the existing legislature, we have a permit from the Ministry of Environment to actually carry out this activity in Cameroon. First of all, we start from the collection phase. We collect from companies and households. Companies actually pay us to collect their electronic waste. We are experiencing stiff competition from the inform
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Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is not different. The cacophonic sound which welcomes one to the area could be compared to that produced by a train in motion. When we got to this area in the course of this report, we met
Mathias Da’a Thomas and his boys at a small workshop. It is filled with all sorts of spoiled electrical equipment including television sets, computers, irons, microwaves just to mention a few. In front of the shop, is man busy breaking the electronic equipment in to pieces. He stopped for a few seconds to look at his finger probably after being injured by one of the equipment. His palms were as dark as that of mechanic and his degree of concentration made him ignore any distractions. According to Matthias, the determined young man and his colleagues leave their houses every morning to dismantle the destroyed equipment in search of elements like iron aluminium, co
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