ITREALMS media E-Waste Dialogue holds in Lagos
The Management of ITREALMS Media is partnering E-waste Producer Responsibility Organization of Nigeria (EPRON) membership organisations for a day-long collection scheme of small electronic waste on Friday, December 15, 2023.
Penpushing reports that the management in a statement explained that E-waste Producer Responsibility Organization of Nigeria (EPRON) members aligning their partnership with 2023 ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue are EL-AS Tech Enterprises Limited and WEEE Eco-Friendly.
‘ITREALMS’ day-long collection scheme is part of the commemoration of 2023 international E-Waste Day (IEWD) within the ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue with the theme “You Can Recycle Anything with a plug, battery or cable” at Welcome Centre Hotels, International Airport Road, Lagos’, the management wrote.
Penpushing further reports that the Group Executive Editor, ITREALMS Media, the organisers of the 2023 ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue, Sir. Remmy Nweke, urged mobile device enthusiasts to come along with their devices that have reached their end-of-life to the venue for proper disposition by professionals who would also be on grounds to address some topical issues.
‘The collection of small electronic wastes especially mobile phones and like-devices, would be carried out by EPRON member organisation, EL-AS Tech Enterprises Limited as facilitated by ITREALMS Media group as part of this year’s ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue on Friday, December 15’, he said.
Penpushing also reports that Nweke in addition, said that the exercise would commence at Welcome Centre Hotel by 9am till close of work hours the same day, pointing out that the collection of small e-waste items would include mobile phones, pointers mouse, earpieces, rechargeable torches, phone chargers, to name a few.
The Group Executive Director explained that this initiative has become time-serving because some people may have missed any other opportunity before now for the year-long campaign, hence this awareness on e-Waste has to be continuous.
Penpushing reports that he said ITREALMS came up with this scheme, and beckoned on Nigerians, especially mobile phone users, to leverage the opportunity in disposing of their mobile devices they no longer use, of course in exchange for a voucher or gift item.
The E-waste Producer Responsibility Organization of Nigeria (EPRON) Executive Secretary, Mrs. Ibukun Faluyi, in her reaction to this year’s day-long small waste collection described the initiative as commendable, expressing confidence it would intensify the collection of end-of-life devices for proper disposition.
Penpushing further reports that Faluyi, in the same vein urged Nigerians to take advantage of this day-long collection of small wastes courtesy of ITREALMS Media, recalling that that in October 2022, E-waste Producer Responsibility Organization of Nigeria (EPRON) had partnered SLOT alongside some United Nations (UN) agencies for collection of small e-waste items in Lagos
The Executive Secretary said it included the United Nations Information Centres (UNIC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), International Labour Organisation (ILO), Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA).
Penpushing also reports that the statement disclosed that the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Dr. Aminu Maida and Director-General, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), Prof. Aliyu Jauro, would both lead speakers at the dialogue.
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