E-Waste / Hazardous Fractions
Business Opportunities in Formal Sector WEEE Recycling
Mapping of the formal WEEE recycling sector in Egypt to identify facility numbers, sizes, and geographic distribution.
Background
Formal e-waste recycling in Egypt competes with an informal sector that carries none of the compliance costs. For investment to be viable, the question is not whether formal recycling is environmentally preferable — it plainly is — but whether there is enough accessible feedstock, recoverable value and market structure to support a compliant operation.
Objective
Identify business opportunities in the formal waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling sector.
Outcome
The study gave investors and policymakers a factual picture of formal WEEE recycling capacity and its commercial constraints, distinguishing genuine opportunity from activity that only appears viable when compliance costs are ignored.
Standards and frameworks applied
- Sustainable Recycling Industries programme methodology
- Egyptian Waste Management Law 202/2020
- Basel Convention
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