Inclusive and Sustainable E-Waste Recycling: Global Solutions for a Growing Problem

Posted 11 days 8 hours ago by EIT RawMaterials

Duration : 2 weeks
Study Method : Online
Subject : Nature & Environment
Overview
Explore e-waste challenges and discover how sustainable and inclusive recycling transforms waste into opportunity.
Course Description

Tackle e-waste through inclusive and sustainable recycling solutions

Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest-growing waste streams globally—and one of the most complex to manage.

On this four-week course from EIT RawMaterials, you’ll explore how inclusive, environmentally sound recycling practices can protect health, reduce harm, and generate economic opportunity.

Understand the environmental and social impact of e-waste

Begin your learning journey by exploring the global scale of the e-waste crisis. Examine the environmental and health consequences of unsafe recycling practices, such as open burning and illegal dumping, particularly in low-income regions.

You’ll learn how thinking of e-waste as a resource rather than a hazard can help support communities and ecosystems.

Explore sustainable solutions and inclusive models

Unpack international frameworks like the Basel Convention and ISO 59014:2024 that guide environmentally sound management (ESM) of e-waste.

Learn how strategies like eco-design, extended producer responsibility, and informal sector integration contribute to circular economy models.

Through case studies, you’ll discover how well-managed collection systems and recycling technologies can drive sustainable outcomes.

Apply your learning to real-world challenges

Explore how e-waste policy, business innovation, and community engagement intersect with the use of interactive tools and scenario-based exercises.

Whether you work in policy, healthcare, education, or business, you’ll leave this course with practical steps to improve e-waste management in your context—and help drive change for people and the planet.

This course is for university students, policymakers, business managers, e-waste operators, and anyone interested in sustainable solutions for e-waste. It’s ideal for professionals in environmental policy, public health, and the circular economy.

Requirements

This course is for university students, policymakers, business managers, e-waste operators, and anyone interested in sustainable solutions for e-waste. It’s ideal for professionals in environmental policy, public health, and the circular economy.

Career Path
  • Explain what is included in an environmentally sound management (ESM) framework
  • Identify, based on a case study, how ESM can be achieved through co-operation and guidance at international, regional, national, and facility level
  • Describe one step towards ESM that could be made by your facility, town, or country
  • Identify opportunities that arise through thinking of e-waste as a resource rather than a problem
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