E-waste

Project Update: Setting up an e-waste facility in the Haut – Katanga Province, DRC

At the beginning of 2016, WorldLoop, Group One and Benelux Afro Centre kicked off a project to set up an e-waste facility in Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province, DRC. As mentioned in the past, the ...

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Battery sorting workshop: WEEE Centre

In June, WorldLoop partnered with Stibat and Bebat to facilitate a twofold training on battery sorting at the WEEE Centre Kenya. The workshop, conducted in accordance with the highest inte...

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Visit to the WEEE Centre

In March 2017, a group of 20 partners travelled to Nairobi, Kenya for a learning journey on Digital 4 Innovation. One stop of the visit was WorldLoop’s partner, the WEEE Centre. Seth Munyamb...

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Battery project Bebat-Stibat

In 2017, WorldLoop will be working with Stibat (compliance organization for batteries in the Netherlands) and Bebat (compliance organization for batteries ...

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BAC expands its e-waste acitivites in Congo with the support of the King Baudouin Foundation

The Benelux Afrocenter (BAC), a WorldLoop partner active in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a third e-waste recycling initiative in DR Congo. With the support of the King Baudouin Foundat...

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Horizon 2020 project – EWIT, the final conference

After 2 years of hard work, all partners were happy to present the results of the project, as well as the EWIT Toolkit. The “Developing an e-waste implementation toolkit...

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2016, a successful year for the ‘Education for Changing the Electronic Waste Cycle in Burundi’ project.

The “Education for Changing the Electronic Waste Cycle in Burundi” project carried out by GLICE with the support of the King Baudouin Foundation and WorldLoop, is entering its third year. ...

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StEP released a new Green Paper on Leaded Glass from CRTs

The United Nations’ Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative, founded in 2007, is a global consortium of companies, research institutes, governmental agencies, internati...

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The 2015 Annual Report is now online!

Dear Friends, Partners and Supporters, We are pleased to release the 2015 Annual Report. With 355 tonnes of e-waste collected in Africa and 6 containers shipped to Europe in 2015, we clearly see that local awareness and interest in e-waste c...

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Progress on e-waste collection in the Haut Katanga province, DRC

June 17th, 2016 - At the beginning of 2016, Benelux Afro Center (BAC) a.s.b.l. with the support of WorldLoop together with Groupe One and its local partner CDEG re...

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