{"id":6083,"date":"2019-10-23T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"solar-e-waste-what-is-kenyas-recycling-disposal-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/23\/solar-e-waste-what-is-kenyas-recycling-disposal-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar e-waste: What is Kenya\u2019s recycling, disposal strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar\nschool bags, solar energy-producing tiles on school rooftops, solar carports\nand even off-grid solar energy systems that have been feeding the national grid\nhave placed Kenya on the world map, but behind the sheen, the country stares at\nan entirely new category of electronic waste \u2014 solar e-waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has\nwitnessed exponential growth in the adoption of solar as a viable energy source.\nIn fact, the country is one of the biggest markets for solar home systems in\nAfrica, buoyed by the government\u2019s VAT exemption on all solar photovoltaic (PV)\nequipment, cutting the cost by 16 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover,\nthe government\u2019s ambitious target to achieve 100 percent green energy by 2020\nand achieve universal access to electricity by 2022 could see the solar\nindustry make a giant leap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRONT\nRUNNER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already,\nthere are about 750,000 existing Solar Home Systems and the potential for 1.96\nmillion more connections, the Kenya National Electrification Strategy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2009, when Kenya was selected as one of the countries participating in the World Bank\u2019s Lighting Africa programme, it has emerged as a regional front-runner on the reach of the off-grid solar market, having bought 2.7 million solar lanterns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/dn2\/Solar-e-waste-what-is-Kenyas-recycling--disposal-strategy-\/957860-5320910-13fstf3z\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Solar school bags, solar energy-producing tiles on school rooftops, solar carports and even off-grid solar energy systems that have been feeding the national grid have placed Kenya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6084,"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-6083","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\/6083","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=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}