The company’s Essam Hashem spoke on television about e-waste recycling.
Spearink’s Essam Hashem
Hashem told The Recycler that the interview, which you can see at the end of this article (in Arabic only) was about the company’s “achievements in the industry” and how the latest in particular – Spearink becoming a member of the UNEP programme for e-waste – led the company to “spread into the related green industry”, where it will begin to offer e-waste recycling.
Spearink, Hashem noted, also signed with the Egyptian “environmental ministry for [the] green initiative” as well as winning an award from Orange Telecom for the biggest collection system. The interview went on to cover the industry, Spearink’s other successes, how its own technology supports its franchising programme, and the company’s expansion “in the region”, as well as what Hashem calls the “next stage” – the e-waste recycling.
The e-waste programme is based on the European Scientific Journals’ report, Assessment and evaluation of waste electric and electronics disposal system in the Middle East, written by Hasan Alameer, and which you can read here. The report notes that e-waste “has become a challenge to most nations”, and adds that tackling it “can only be met by combining effective legislation with incentives to develop business and employment opportunities”.
These opportunities would “maximise the lifespan of these valuable finite natural resources”, and the report calls for “capacity building and technology transfer” from developed to developing nations, along with “implementation of international standards”, which it states “will be a key to reducing waste and pollution” alongside “sustainable business models”.