{"id":139426,"date":"2025-05-06T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/africas-eyesore-as-electronic-waste-piles-up-on-low-quality-fakes-influx\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T04:58:46","slug":"africas-eyesore-as-electronic-waste-piles-up-on-low-quality-fakes-influx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/africas-eyesore-as-electronic-waste-piles-up-on-low-quality-fakes-influx\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s eyesore as electronic waste piles up on low quality, fakes influx"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139426\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>An influx of short-lived electronic devices, including mobile phones, computing devices, chargers, and household appliances, which break down easily due to poor manufacturing standards, is leaving an ill-equipped Africa with electronic waste crisis, warn sector players.<\/p>\n<p>According to director general and chief executive of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) David Mugonyi, these are now undermining efforts to build a sustainable and circular economy.&#8221;A surge in the importation of counterfeit and low-quality electronic products and end-user devices which have a shorter lifespan and generate a large amount of e-waste, have aggravated the situation, and endanger the entire value chain,&#8221; said Mr Mugonyi, at the seventh edition of the East African Communication Organization (EACO) Regional Conference on Sustainable E-waste Management held in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, 62 million metric tonnes of e-waste were generated in 2022, according to a joint statement by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). That number is projected to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030. Alarmingly, only 22.3 percent of e-waste produced globally is formally collected and recycled\u2014and in Africa, that figure drops below one percent.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/world\/africa\/africas-eyesore-as-electronic-waste-piles-up-on-low-quality-fakes-influx-m04xujjc\">Zawya<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/3-703\/\">Africa\u2019s eyesore as electronic waste piles up on low quality, fakes influx<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[698,575,4065],"class_list":["post-139426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-ewaste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}