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This document summarizes a study on developing a national household e-waste policy for Malaysia. It discusses the environmental issues posed by e-waste as well as the economic opportunities it presents. It outlines the current e-waste lifecycle in Malaysia and examines different international approaches to e-waste management. The study analyzes challenges facing Malaysia and key ingredients for a successful national e-waste strategy, including clear roles and responsibilities, implementation mechanisms, and enforcement measures. The goal is to determine the best system for managing household e-waste in Malaysia.
Rinkou presentation 7 november 2015
- 1. A study ondeveloping a National Household E-Waste Policy for Malaysia Zaipul Anwar Zainu Malaysia Japan International Insitute of Technology Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 7th November 2015 Download or stream the presentation at http://zaipul.com Post your interactive questions on the presentation at http://padlet.com/zaipul/rinkou11
- 2. Structure of thispresentation 1. E-Waste is a pressing environmental issue 2. Economic opportunity on e-waste 3. E-waste lifecycle in Malaysia 4. The need to have a national e-waste strategy 5. Three approach on e-waste management 6. Current challenges for Malaysia 7. Ingredients for success
- 3. E-Waste: Is APressing Environmental Issue like a time bomb waiting to explode
- 4. E-Waste: Environmental Issue •Inappropriate end-of-life management of e- waste can create toxic environmental impacts: – Manual dismantling: people dismantling electronic and electrical equipment manually may suffer health impacts – Landfill: toxic substances in e-waste can contaminate water sources and ground soil with cadmium, mercury & lead, and release CFCs – Incineration of e-waste plastics generates harmful dioxins and furans
- 5. Nevertheless there isan Economic Opportunity on E-waste
- 6. E-Waste: Economic Opportunity •The growing e-waste economic opportunity is driven by: • Valuable components and materials contained in electronic waste (e.g. gold, copper, silver, palladium, indium) • Regulatory approaches such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes that ensure additional financing for collection and recycling activities.
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- 8. The need todevelop a national household e-waste strategy • At the moment no laws specific to household e- waste. A national strategy implemented by regulation may have the objective to: • Determine the basis on which the market is organized – and make it profitable to enter the market • Mitigate health and environmental risks from toxic substances in e-waste. • Reduce pressure on primary commodities in a world with dwindling resources.
- 9. Based on mystudy there are 3 approaches to E-Waste Management in the world • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – European • Consumer Pays – Japan • Mixed Model – US
- 10. Extended Producer Responsibility Europe:Producers and importers are responsible for their products Advantages: •New industry created in collection, dismantling & processing of e-waste •Better design of products to reduce compliance costs •Encourage high and growing collection rates Disadvantages: •Higher product costs born by consumers •Enforcement costs
- 11. Consumer Pays Japan: Retailersare responsible for collecting end-of-life products. But consumers pay at the time of disposal, between $20 - $80 (USD) Advantages: •Strong and achievable targets, including focus on harmful wastes (CFCs) •Up-front payment by user ensures finances recycling Disadvantages: •Weak producer incentive to improve product design •Weak monitoring and frequent violations by retailers •Illegal dumping by consumers to avoid paying the fee
- 12. Mixed Model The US:No consensus of industry & government on financing, therefore no federal regulations: – Patchwork of state regulations, mostly based on limited or full Extended Producer Responsibility Advantages: •Low cost to manufacturers & distributors & space for different approaches to flourish Disadvantages: •Low and patchy e-waste recycling activities •Patchwork of regulations hinders industry development nationally •No national awareness of e-waste issues
- 13. What are otheremerging economies doing? • The big question for larger economies is whether & how to do smelting and processing domestically or focus on dismantling and initial processing for export • India • South Africa
- 14. India • Still workingon draft law to: • Introduce extended producer responsibility • Define and include stakeholders • Ban the import of used electrical and electronic equipment for charity in the country. • Formalize the very large informal sector
- 15. South Africa • 2009Waste Act makes manufacturers and importers must define an Industrial Waste Management Plan (IWMP) before they can sell products in South Africa • Producers and importers gathered in the e-Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA) to implement their IWMP • Consumer Protection Act forces retailers to accept take-back from consumers buying a new product
- 16. Study on whatis the best system/policy for Household E-waste Management in Malaysia Objective: whichever approach is chosen, the national strategy should aim to: •Clear roles and responsibilities among e-waste actors •Definition implementation mechanisms and institutional support, as well as enforcement measures
- 17. Current challenges forMalaysia • Importing & lack of control over producers • ‘Donations’ and dumping • Size of economy and e-waste feedstock • Transport infrastructure • Informal sector competes for feedstock • Smelting & processing is highly capital- intensive • Enforcement, Enforcement, Enforcement
- 18. Essential ingredients forsuccess National strategy should include: •Discussion with all stakeholders: producers, importers, retailers, consumers, refurbishes, recyclers, dismantlers, scavengers, NGOs, academics, environment & other enforcement agencies •Financial scheme that allocates costs of collection & treatment •Reasonable and progressive targets to keep the momentum going •Public awareness - raising •Enforcement measures
- 19. Thank you foryour attention!
Editor's Notes
- #5 Manual dismantling health impacts are cuts & infections, and exposure to harmful chemicals
- #7 In the field of waste management, extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy designed to promote the integration of environmental costs associated with goods throughout their life cycles into the market price of the products.
- #8 Ferrous metals = 50% total weight of e-waste; mainly large household appliances. As scrap metal is a critical input in all steel-making processes, demand for recycled steel is robust. Non-ferrous metals =5%. :Aluminium, Copper, Tin and Precious metals. In the case of small household appliances and TV & Monitors, non ferrous metals are found in particular on printed circuit boards (PCBs). After the disassembly of the circuit board, metals are smelted so as to recover lead, copper, platinum, palladium and other precious metals. Glass from CRTs can be used: direct glass-to-glass recycling, replacement for feldspar in the ceramic industry or as replacement for sand in the building industry. Plastics can be incinerated with energy recovery, recycled or used in gasification plants. Recycling requires the separation of plastics containing brominated flame retardants and several sorting operations to separate plastic resins. Hazardous materials are recycled, incinerated, or disposed of in special landfills. For example, batteries are recycled, mercury is recovered, CFCs and asbestos are incinerated, and PCB suspect capacitors are disposed of in special landfills
- #9 Regulation of e-waste management is key to the whole process as it has historically been the main catalyst of an organized e-waste collection and recycling market. The absence of regulation hinders the emergence of a formal e-waste market because it is not a profitable activity in this situation: collection and treatment costs – with proper health, security and environmental management - are not offset by potential revenue from reuse or material recovery.
- #12 The recycling program was extended to business PCs from April 2001 and residential PCs from October 2003.
- #13 Incentives for investment on large scale re-processing are low.
- #14 The big question for larger economies is whether & how to do smelting and processing domestically or focus on dismantling and initial processing for export. India and China are both trying, Brazil is considering. The jury is out on whether it is cost effective.
- #15 Stakeholders are the dealers, refurbishers, dismantlers, collectors, recyclers or the government agencies for implementation and monitoring Strengths: open dialogue with stakeholders including NGOs dealing with the informal sector Weaknesses: lack of market definition hinders investment, no collection schemes defined, no financial incentive for informal sector, poor enforcement of other environmental regulations undermine credibility.
- #16 Weaknesses: legislation is not precise enough on the fiscal and financial scheme and on the breakdown of responsibilities between companies and public bodies , import of second hand equipment not covered, collection is not organised so companies find it hard to fulfill their legal requirements. All in all, still fairly immature sector.
- #17 implementation mechanisms – legislation, regulation, voluntary schemes, pilot projects, information campaigns
- #18 there are only four large integrated smelters / refineries worldwide. Three of them in Europe namely: Umicore in Hoboken (Belgium) Norddeutsche Affinerie in Hamburg (Germany) Boliden in Rönnskär (Sweden)