{"id":3211,"date":"2019-06-20T07:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"nigeria-turns-the-tide-on-electronic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/nigeria-turns-the-tide-on-electronic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Turns The Tide On Electronic Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ambitious new project launched\nin Lagos today is aiming to reform the electronics sector and put an end to the\ntoxic toll improper management of electronic waste is taking on Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over half a million tonnes of\ndiscarded appliances are processed in the country every year, threatening both\nthe health of people in the informal recycling industry and the nation\u2019s\nenvironment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With backing from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegef.org\/\">Global Environment\nFacility<\/a>, the Government of Nigeria has joined forces with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/\">UN Environment<\/a>&nbsp;and partners to\nturn the tide on e-waste, under the Circular Economy Approaches for the\nElectronics Sector in Nigeria project. Led by the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesrea.gov.ng\/\">National\nEnvironmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency<\/a>&nbsp;(NESREA), the\n$15-million initiative will bring together players from government, the private\nsector and civil society to kickstart&nbsp;a\nfinancially self-sustaining circular economy approach for electronics in\nNigeria, protecting the environment while creating safe employment for\nthousands of Nigerians. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/nigeria-turns-tide-electronic-waste\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment An ambitious new project launched in Lagos today is aiming to reform the electronics sector and put an end to the toxic toll improper management of electronic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}