Ghana's recently introduced e-waste regulatory policy: A hope for a better e-waste sector?
| Autor: | Bimpong FAK; International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden., Asibey MO; Department of Planning, College of Art and Built Environment, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana., Inkoom DKB; Department of Planning, College of Art and Built Environment, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.; School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA [Waste Manag Res] 2024 Nov; Vol. 42 (11), pp. 1031-1041. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 30. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0734242X231204457 |
| Abstrakt: | Electronic waste (e-waste), often dominated by the informal sector, has had adverse effects on recipient developing countries' economies, health and physical environment. Ghana, over the years, has had support from international organisations to manage its e-waste crisis. Until 2016, there was no e-waste specific policy to guide the management of the sector. In 2016, Ghana passed a regulatory policy - Act 917 - to specifically deal with e-waste, supported by other frameworks such as a regulatory instrument (L.I. 2250), a technical guideline for environmentally sound e-waste management and an e-waste-specific policy, which is currently being developed. However, there is dearth of research on how effectively a regulatory policy such as Act 917 can help address an informally dominated sector whose crude recycling approaches have had great environmental and health impacts. Adapting the analytical framework and intervention theory, key stakeholders within the e-waste sector were interviewed on: the effectiveness of the Act, the challenges confronting them and their involvement in the design and implementation processes. The findings showed that stakeholders were represented at various stages of the process. Informal recyclers were provided with training programmes, health centres and an incentive scheme to minimise burning of electrical and electronic equipment. There however exist many challenges to the sound management of the sector, particularly, the lack of end-to-end recycling facilities, registering and formalising the sector and sequencing of the e-waste policy and regulatory framework. The research concludes by recommending areas for future studies. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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