With global e-waste set to reach 74 million tonnes by 2030, it is the world’s fastest growing non-industrial waste stream. From Ghana to Tanzania, entrepreneurs across Africa are turning electronic trash into treasure
What happens to the millions of tonnes of electronics that are thrown away every year? Despite governments’ efforts to regulate how this waste steam is managed, the majority does not find its way into formal recycling schemes.
In Europe, the region with the highest rate of e-waste recycling, just 42.5 per cent was formally collected and recycled in 2019, according to the annual Global E-Waste Monitor report. In the global south, it is even lower; just 1 per cent of Africa’s e-waste went through official recycling programmes…
