Evaluating the feasibility of effective E waste management: Case study

The study investigated the prospects of improving e-waste management system. It was established that the e-waste comprised of personal computers, air conditioners, refrigerators, fluorescent lamps and old telephones handsets. Such discarded equipment was found to contain useful metals such as iron, copper and aluminum as well as ecological contaminants such as lead and mercury. The prevailing practice simply involved storage and transporting to landfill site for disposal without appropriate segregation. The existing legislation framework did not offer satisfactory enforcement effectively appropriate handling of this specific waste. An e-waste handling framework was proposed to enable separation and recovery scheme to get output secondary raw materials containing ferrous metal scrap, non-ferrous scrap, plastics, batteries and glass thereby stimulating for a possible recovery of useful materials and involving local recycling companies who can benefit from these materials.