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• INSTITUTE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT SOUTH AFRICA

Small Waste Contractors

10 JUNE 2015 Your Total Environmentally Friendly Light Bulb Recycling Solution

PRAVASHEN NAIDOO Pravashen@ewasteafrica.net Cell: 0832361632

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Our Journey

• 2012

Feasibility study 12 months

• 2013

Hazardous Waste licensing process begins

• March

E-Waste Founders visit our technology partners (UK)

• May

E-Waste signs purchase agreement for the Award Winning Balcan Machinery, sole rights secured for Southern Africa

• June to now

Lots of Negotiations with corporates and government institutions

• 2014

Machine ready for Shipment

• July

HH Waste License Granted

• August

E-Waste Plant commissioning completed

• October 24th

Deputy Minister Barbara Thomson officially opens the Recycling Facility

Best Practice Visit Deputy Minister recycling bulbs Offtake Agreements for by-products Secures Technology Distribution Rights

Why South Africa

60 Million Bulbs containing Mercury rolled out since 2004 All Bulbs are dumped into landfills - Ban 2016 100’s of Millions of bulbs in circulation Landfill costs increasing year on year

ZERO HARM: Safe Disposal of CFL’s, stops mercury from contaminating our land & water supply Reducing our Environmental Footprint: Plant uses less than 15 kw of Power and no Water Private sector Participation

• initiative. Benchmark

facility for SADC and the AU

Why E-Waste Africa

Innovation: Plant can crush all types of

• lamps. By-products

are re-usable.

We provide Industry with a feasible, environmentally friendly, cost effective, as well as, sustainable alternative to dumping and landfilling Bulbs

Executive Summary

E-Waste Africa, a level 1 BBBEE company, can offer corporates and Government institutions a number of options for lamp waste disposal: onsite storage, collection, crushing and the heart of our business “lamp recycling”. This offering meets four critical needs to tackle the War on Waste

• Lower Hazardous Waste environmental footprint
• Assist in achieving zero waste to landfill targets
• Allow Industry to comply with Legislation:
• It will help meet the National Environmental Management: Waste act 2008
• It will help meet the National CPA with the supplier/Manufacturer Responsibilities
• Alignment to the EPR coming
• Ban of all Light bulbs to landfill 2016

e e e eWaste Africa

Your Total Environmentally Friendly Light Bulb Recycling Solution

Contact Details Pravashen Naidoo

Email: info@ewasteafrica.net Cell: 0832361632

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