Company in South Africa Recycles Electrical Waste
“We are a recycling company which uses all types of waste and whatever people do not want,” Antoinette Maree, a regional manager of E-Waste Africa company, told ANA.
“We have different equipment and machines that separate the wastes and we use both machine and human force to control the machines,” he added.
“We recycle different things, including CRT screens, lighting, screen and monitors, large and small electrical equipment, solar panels, batteries and cables,” Maree said.
Every year millions of electrical and electronic devices are discarded as products break or become obsolete and are thrown away.
These discarded devices are considered e-waste and can become a threat to the environment and to human health if they are not treated, disposed of, and recycled appropriately. Common data-x-items in e-waste streams include computers, mobile phones, and large household appliances, as well as medical equipment.
INOTEX 2024, the innovation and technology exhibition, opened at Tehran's Pardis Science and Technology Park on May 7 in the presence of Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi.
Delivering a speech in the opening ceremony, Dehqani Firouzabadi described the INOTEX as a good event and a pivot for bringing all Iranian technological ecosystems together so that it could accelerate the rapid development of Iran's innovation.
He said that there are 10,000 knowledge-based companies in the country that have more than 530 billion tomans in sales and have had exports 3 times more than last year.
Knowledge-based companies have registered $2.5 billion of exports, Dehqani Firouzabadi added.
He noted that last year 43 foreign delegations were hosted by Iran, and underlined the country's readiness to share its knowledge-based experiences and cooperate to have joint tech parks.
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