<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Dr Ndemo</DIV>
<DIV>Locally assembled PCs will eventually die and become eWaste</DIV>
<DIV>Branded foreign PCs will die and become eWaste</DIV>
<DIV>New mobile phones, TVs, hi-fi, kettles, fridges, A/Cs will all become eWaste</DIV>
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<DIV>Kenya has no alternative but to build end-of-life recycling capacity for eWaste </DIV>
<DIV>GoK must legislate to ban eWaste dumping</DIV>
<DIV>GoK must legislate to promote and incentivaise local re-use of EEE</DIV>
<DIV>GoK must legislate to obligate WEEE recycling at end-of-life</DIV>
<DIV>GoK must insist that OEMs pay for all aspects of re-use and recycling as in Europe<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 8/30/09, bitange@jambo.co.ke <I><bitange@jambo.co.ke></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke><BR>Subject: Re: [kictanet] My Take: Affordable computers<BR>To: benmakai@yahoo.com<BR>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR>Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 5:33 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>When the Kenya Government slaped a 25% duty on used computers, it was<BR>meant to encourage local assembly where we have done pretty well on the<BR>learning curve. This policy change is to enable local job creation while<BR>taking into consideration on environmental impact from energy zapping used<BR>computers. In any case, the cost of a donated computer amounts to between<BR>Ksh. 16,000 and 25,000. This is pretty much what it cost assembling a new<BR>PC locally.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR><BR>Ndemo.<BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------- <BR>This message has been scanned for viruses and<BR>dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is<BR>believed to be clean.<BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>"easy access to the world" <BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>kictanet mailing list<BR><A
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