In this blog I would like to react on a few important remarks Seppe Bodequin made in the last paragraph of his blog ‘The export of e-waste’ on the one hand and in his previous blog ‘It is possible to decrease e-waste without regulation by governments’ on the other hand. In my opinion it’s obvious that a severe regulation is a necessity because most of the companies’ first concern still is to make a profit. An international accepted committee that controls every economical agent seems to be an ideal solution. But is this idea realistic?
The United Nations already called attention to the growing amount of e-waste, but the organization doesn’t have the possibility to give a binding advice. I think that it would be a good idea to bring together a group of people specialized in e-waste. Those experts should be independent from any country or political trend. I don’t agree with the suggestion that this committee should be able to punish countries that don’t respect the existing regulation. All of this because a committee that is part of both the legislature and the judiciary won’t ever be accepted by most of the countries. I also doubt about the efficiency of a punishing system. In my view a rewarding program would motivate companies more to recycle e-waste.
Jonas Dauwe
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