Track: Waste Management

Abstract

The study investigated the prospects of improving e-waste management system. It was established that e-waste comprised of obsolete personal computers, air conditionaers, refridgerators, fluorescent lamps and old telephone handsts. suct discarded euqipment was found to contain useful metals such as iron, copper and aluminium 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 aggregation. The existing  legislation framework did not offer satisfactory enforcement effectively appropriate in the 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 possible recovery of useful material and involving local recycling companies who can benefit from these materials.