Israel Environmental Ministry to Launch E-waste Handling Awareness

Israel is developing countries with the several innovative people are working to take the country to next level. The advancement in the technology field start making new problem called E-waste, which is too dangerous for world and in Israel there are several e-waste management companies working to eliminate the problem. Also the Israeli Govt. trying to handle the situation by proposing new policies and plans that are helpful in a way to recycle the goods, but recycling is not the only way; the Govt. must to spread the awareness into the people to reduce the use of the devices.

So in order to spread the awareness into people Ministry of Environment will be starting a campaign into Israel in next couple of weeks according to Minister. This campaign will be telling the public about how they can dispose their electronics without polluting the environment. And also what is the effect of the e-waste on living organism. Throwing them into landfills will be lead the humans to several type of health problems because the electronic components such as lead cadmium, beryllium mercury and others which is dangerous.

A spoke person of Environment Ministry said that people will be seeing the campaign live into next couple of weeks and it will be promoting better management and disposal of the products after end of life. As of now there is over 94 percent of total population have the Smartphone in Jordan and about two fifth of people own PC and Laptop.

“The ministry has already started distributing bins in different regions for people to discard their unwanted gadgets, the official told The Jordan Times on Thursday. In addition to the collection bins, the campaign also entails the distribution of stickers and brochures to the public to guide them on ways to handle electronic waste.”

The WEEE Legislation in Israel, Tackling the Ewaste

Israel is tackling EE through the Environmental policies and significantly developed several organizations like m.a.i recycling, which is a well known e-recycle company. After several years, when there were no rules and regulatory, then came the Israeli environmental regulation has taken the good take care of the environment and there are several matter that are not related, which were subjected to outdated standard. After recasting the update new complete rules are updated and guild lines. The WEEE legislation has gone through number of minor updates since 2002, which includes 2006 and 2009 too. After nine years of working the law is failed to reach the aim so they amended it again. On December 20 2011 The EU council and parliament agreed on amendments to directive.

The Knowledge sourced says “The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is the European Community directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which, together with the RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC, became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods, with a minimum rate of 4 kilograms per head of population per annum recovered for recycling by 2009. The RoHS Directive set restrictions upon European manufacturers as to the material content of new electronic equipment placed on the market.”

The symbol adopted by the council is wheelie bin crossed with cross mark with a black line and the line is represents the manufacturing year of the goods say the before 2005 and with line says after 2005. The WEEE legislation is taking care of 4 kg Electronic and electrical goods  per heads per year but the targeted to reach 50%  till 2020 and the 500 million people of generating the a huge number of goods every year.