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WorldLoop offsets e-waste through Kenyan partners EnviroServe & WEEE Centre

WorldLoop has helped Close the Gap offset all of the devices that were given a second life in 2019 and 2020. Through its Kenyan partners EnviroServe and WEEE Centre, WorldLoop financed the collection and treatment of close to 20.000 ...

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The Circular Economy Hub from Close the Gap and WorldLoop is fully operational!

We are proud to announce that the Circular Economy Hub is now East-Africa's first refurbishment hub of its size, and it is fully operational! It is situated in Jomvu, the coastal industrial area of Mombasa in Kenya. The warehouse has a capacity of over 20.000 ICT devices, and several thousands of computers c...

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StEP article on Close the Gap/WorldLoop’s activities in Kenya

StEP - Solving the e-waste Problem - has published an article on Close the Gap and WorldLoop's work in Kenya on its website. You find the article through ...

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Read our 2019 Activity Report

Click here to read our 2019 activity report, in collaboration with our sister organization Close the Gap....

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Olivier Vanden Eynde speaks at TCI Global Network Conference

On Tuesday October 8th, Close the Gap and WorldLoop's founder & CEO Olivier Vanden Eynde gave a keynote at the TCI Global Network Conference in Antwerp. This conference, the 22nd edition already, was organise...

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Read our 2018 Activity Report

Click here to read our 2018 Activity Report!...

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Olivier Vanden Eynde on RTBF’s radio show Tendances Première

On Monday 29th April, Close the Gap and WorldLoop's founder and CEO Olivier Vanden Eynde was a guest of journalist Véronique Thyberghien in her morning show Tendances Première. Tendances Première is a talkshow...

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Mobile Phone Collection project as one of the Brussels laureates of the European Week of Waste Reduction Awards

A brand new initiative of WorldLoop and Close the Gap is the Mobile Phone Collection project. Together with Raising Results, we set up a programme in October and November 2018 where employees of Ordina, Accenture and ENGIE could collect their old mobile devi...

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The results of the Mobile Phone Collection project are in!

The last day of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) (25th November) signaled the end of our Mobile Phone collection pilot project as well. Employees of Ordina, Accenture, and ENGIE were engaged through an interactive communication campaign and a qui...

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WorldLoop to feature in Waste Management course taught at University of Delft

WorldLoop, is mentioned as an exemplary organisation in a series of lectures of a Waste Management course taught at the Uni...

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