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CEA launches e-waste collection week in collaboration with Postal Dept. 

13 Sep 2020

By Sarah Hannan To mark World Post Day on 10 October, the Department of Posts has collaborated with the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) to launch a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project to collect electronic waste (e-waste) from 5-10 October. The initiative will allow the public to drop off their domestic e-waste, such as used or obsolete mobile phones, computers, televisions, radios, and stereos, at selected post offices. “We will have designated post offices named e-waste drop-off points, and would also seek assistance from the divisional secretariat offices. We will only be accepting domestic e-waste and not industrial-grade machinery or items,” Postmaster General Ranjith Ariyaratne explained. Sri Lanka is yet to employ a proper mechanism to collect and dispose e-waste. Speaking to The Morning, CEA Chairman Siripala Amarasinghe said: "E-waste is a category that is fast growing and since there is no mechanism in place to recycle them regularly, we  are looking into methods of recycling such disposed items that get collected." The collected e-waste would be recycled and any component that would not be recycled would be re-exported, the CEA stated.

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