Development of National Implementation Plan for E-waste Management in Sri Lanka
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Development of National Implementation Plan for E-waste Management in Sri Lanka
Year: 2008
The Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC) in collaboration with the Government of Japan initiated a project on environmentally sound management of e-Waste in the Asia Pacific Region. The Sri Lankan proposal to develop a National Implementation Plan for Electrical and Electronic Waste Management was included as a part of this regional project.
The project proposal submitted by Sri Lanka encompasses six phases with a time span of four years. This document reports on the first component of the project to which financial assistance was received from the Government of Japan through the Basel Convention Trust Fund. The first component broadly covers a desk study followed by a field survey to prepare inventories of selected e-products. Personal Computers, Printers, Televisions, Mobile Phones, Refrigerators, Washing machines, Photo copying machines, Air - conditioners and Batteries are the selected items. The main activities of component one includes; Establishment of a Coordination Mechanism, Establishment of a Project Control Unit (PCU), Preparation of a detailed Inventory for the selected e-items, Field survey, Awareness Raising Workshops, Stakeholder Consultation, and the Delivery of the Project Report.
The National Coordinating Committee set up for the implementation of the Basel Convention acts as the Steering Committee for this project. The National Coordinating Committee is chaired and convened by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources is the Focal point for the Basel Convention and the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) is the Competent Authority.