Abstract
Costa Rica followed different steps in order to organise and implement a waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management system. This paper summarises the challenges, successes, and limitations of its implementation. Two phases were needed to set up the system. The first phase created a baseline followed by the designing of a strategy. The second phase promoted a Decree for WEEE management that prohibits discarding WEEE together with household waste, as well as the creation of a National Executive Committee with representatives of importers, consumers, and government, which will establish the quotes and treatment fees, and so on. Another outcome was the development of a strategy for the implementation of WEEE management for the country, the promotion of population awareness about their responsibility for WEEE management, and an example set up for other Latin American countries. This paper draws conclusions from the regulation and notes the required consistency with the existing national waste legislation in order to reduce approval times. Additionally, the importance of the participation of stakeholders representing different electric and electronic equipment (EEE) sectors with the purpose of obtaining consensus on agreements is highlighted.
Highlights
The electronic industry is the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing industry
This situation gave rise to several countries in high-income regions engaging in waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) policy formulation under principles such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), whereby WEEE manufacturers are assigned the responsibility for environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of products, including recycling, reuse, and final disposal of waste materials [2]
The second phase, planned for three years, was focused on three objectives: (1) To prepare and discuss the regulation proposal for the WEEE management with government, public, and private sectors in order to achieve its approval by presidential decree; (2) To assess technical and financial feasibility for the WEEE process proposed in the management strategy considering strengths and limitations in the country; and (3) To transfer information about WEEE in order to raise awareness in all sectors of Costa Rican community
Summary
The electronic industry is the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing industry. the amount of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is growing at an alarming rate, and countries in Latin America are no exception, in some cases being similar to industrialised countries [1,2,3]. The report alerted organisations and institutions to the need of a sustainable management of the Great Metropolitan Area showed a generation rate of 0.59 kg/inhabitants-day [7]. Rica this developed initiative to by determine inventories in different (PCs) materials. Sustainable Waste [9,10,11]
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