How to prevent e-waste?
This course will help learners understand how they can tackle and prevent e-waste, opportunities for reciclying and reducing e-waste.
Can you imagine a world without e-waste? What will it look like? How do we achieve it? This course aims to inspire, as much as educate. It dares learners to co-create a better tomorrow through individual and joint action.
This course aims to inspire, as much as educate. It dares learners to co-create a better tomorrow through individual and joint action.
More specifically, by the end of the course learners will be able to:
Discuss what electronic waste is and the diverse impacts it has
Describe the role individuals, companies, and authorities play in reducing e-waste
Identify ways for consumers to support circularity, including by influencing
Highlight individual and community actions
1. The State of Play: An overview of the magnitude of the e-waste problem and its impact.
2. Recycling: This Module discusses challenges, opportunities, and best practices for e-waste recycling.
3. Reuse & Repair: Module 3 focuses on approaches to preparing and reusing electronic products so that their lifespan is prolonged
4. Reduce: Ideas around achieving a zero e-waste society through social, technological, business, and political innovation.
5. Wrap-up: This section hosts the final assessment test and additional resources.