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Case studies

Data management automation for the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for electronics in Nigeria

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March 2023

The establishment of an EPR database is critical in operationalising and formalising the management of EPR-related data. The EPR database allows e-waste flow tracking and EPR fee and recovery rate calculation while ensuring producers' information confidentiality and helping prevent counterfeiting activities.

The case study outlines the project’s efforts towards establishing this automation system in Nigeria in the following areas:

Developing the EPR database: to manage producers’ market share data, calculate and collect the EPR fees.
Registering Producers and products in the database: To ensure electronic and electrical producers are registered and to oversee the EPR operation.
Securing the database: Enhancing producers' trust in the database and ensuring its confidentiality.

The study concludes with a summary of next steps and key learnings, emphasizing the importance of law enforcement, database registration, secure systems for producers, and encouraging the participation of producers in the database registration.

Emerging Policy Issues: Hazardous chemicals in electronics

Topics: Chemicals in electronics E-waste Circularity

Country: Nigeria

Manuals and toolkits

Guidance to Provide Footprint Information on Sustainable Alternatives

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Life Cycle Initiative

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May 2020

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As there is an increase in communication of concrete recommendations for better solutions and alternatives to build a better economy that protects nature, there is an increased need to back these recommendations with facts and figures about how they contribute to reduce our impact on the planet.In this sense, the life cycle team has pulled together a very simple 2-page guidance on elements to consider when backing up your recommendations with strong life-cycle based science. The 2-pager also provides links

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Life Cycle

Policy document

Chemicals of Concern in electronics: List of Lists and Regulatory Frameworks

June 2020

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Chemicals in products and hazardous substances within the life cycle of electrical and electronic products have been longstanding emerging policy issues under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). In order to track and control chemicals along the value chains of electrical and electronic products, stakeholders first must identify relevant chemicals to be addressed. Considering the complexity of the chemical world as well as the complexity of value chains in the electronics sector, this important step can be highly

Emerging Policy Issues: Hazardous chemicals in electronics Chemicals in products

Topics: E-waste Chemicals in electronics

https://saicmknowledge.org/index%2ephp/articles/2023-five-areas-target-through-resolve-determination-and-hope

2023: Five Areas to Target Through Resolve, Determination, and Hope

By Elena Kosolapova and Lynn Wagner, SDG Knowledge Hub

As expected, 2022 was a significant year

Factsheets and brochures

Using a value chain approach to reduce chemicals of concern

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SAICM

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October 2021

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Chemicals of concern (CoCs) contained in everyday products can have harmful impacts on human health and the environment. While chemical-related impacts can often occur during a product’s use or end-of-life, decisions influencing product ingredients are taken further upstream of the value chain. Action to address CoCs in products thus need to consider the entire value chain and impactful interventions need to be made at upstream stages to protect human health and the environment from chemical pollution. UNEP is working on

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Chemicals in electronics Chemicals in toys Chemicals in textiles Chemicals in building products

Report

A Chemicals Perspective on Designing with Sustainable Plastics: Goals, Considerations and Trade-offs

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OECD

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December 2021

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The development of plastic products does not systematically take sustainability, particularly from a chemicals perspective, into account. This report seeks to enable the creation of inherently sustainable plastic products by integrating sustainable chemistry thinking in the design process. By applying a chemicals lens during the plastic material selection process, designers and engineers can make informed decisions to incorporate sustainable plastic during the conceptualisation phase of their products. The report provides an integrated approach to sustainable plastic selection from a chemicals

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Life Cycle