E-Waste / Hazardous Fractions
Assessment of E-Waste Problematic Fractions
Assessment of problematic hazardous fractions in e-waste streams and identification of safe management solutions and EPR models.
Background
Not all e-waste is equally difficult. A minority of fractions — CRT glass, mercury-containing lamps and displays, batteries, certain plastics with brominated flame retardants, and refrigerant-bearing components — carry most of the hazard and most of the treatment cost, and there is little economic incentive to handle them correctly without a defined responsibility mechanism.
Objective
Assess problematic fractions and propose safe treatment, disposal, and extended producer responsibility approaches.
Outcome
The assessment separated the e-waste fractions that markets will handle on their own from those that require a funding mechanism, and set out what would be needed to manage the latter safely. That distinction is what makes an EPR scheme designable rather than aspirational.
Standards and frameworks applied
- Basel Convention
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- Egyptian Waste Management Law 202/2020
- Sustainable Recycling Industries methodology
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