Egyptian government aims to increase investment for e-waste recycling

Egyptian government aims to increase investment for e-waste recycling

Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat have met to discuss methods of increasing investments for electronic waste recycling.Fouad said that serious and effective steps are being taken in the electronic waste management field in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.Such waste is hazardous to human health and the environment, and it has proven necessary to develop a framework to facilitate the process of collecting such waste.The Ministry of Environment is putting the finishing touches on the system for collecting, mechanising, and governing waste by technological means.Talaat said that there is significant cooperation between the two ministries in the field of electronic waste, due to the importance of this issue. This has been evident in the Egyptian state's issuance of a waste law to regulate work in this field.Khaled Al-Attar, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Administrative Development, Digital Transformation and Mechanization, said the Egyptian and Swiss governments have undertaken an agreement to organise work in the field of e-waste.The agreement will provide the largest amount of electronic waste to factories, who will undertake a complete inventory of devices. This comes as part of Egypt's move towards