{"id":11991,"date":"2019-03-19T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2019-03-19T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:46:45","slug":"burundi-to-address-e-waste-management-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-to-address-e-waste-management-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi to address e-waste management problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi hosts the 4th regional workshop on sustainable e-waste management in the east African region and East African Communications Organization Working Group- EACO WG 7 from this March 18.<br \/>\nDonatien Manirampa, Director General of Burundi agency of telecommunication regulation-ARCT says Burundi collects over 30 thousand tons of e-waste every year. He says if it is not well managed, the waste can be a big harm to the environment and human health.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11997\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11997\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Donatien-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Donatien-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Donatien--300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Donatien--768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Donatien--600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donatien Manirampa: \u201cOver 30 thousand tons of e-waste are collected in Burundi every year\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Manirampa says the management of e-waste is still a problem for Burundi and other east African countries. \u201cThe workshop to address the e-waste management intends to show where out- of -use electronic materials are thrown and what should be done to protect the environment and human health\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He says Burundi is trying to manage this kind of waste and the outcome of the meeting will help to improve this management project. \u201cThere is a draft bill on e-waste management that is to be adopted. There is also an association that is collecting out -of- use electronic materials,\u201d he says, adding that the waste is divided into two categories: \u201cThe one that can be recycled and the other that is to be destroyed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The regional workshop on sustainable e-waste management is being held in Bujumbura under the theme, \u201cBenefits of a regional approach in tackling e-waste waste management\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi hosts the 4th regional workshop on sustainable e-waste management in the east African region and East African Communications Organization Working Group- EACO WG 7 from this March 18. Donatien Manirampa, Director General of Burundi agency of telecommunication regulation-ARCT says Burundi collects over 30 thousand tons of e-waste every year. He says if it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[970,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11999,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions\/11999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}