“The Environmental and Health Challenges of
E-waste and Its Management: An Emerging 21st
Century Global Concern”
NORMAN Annual General Assembly Meeting
Amsterdam, 9-10 December 2014
Diane Purchase
Middlesex University
[email protected]
Challenges of E-waste
• Chemical nature and
global distribution?
• Environmental and
health impact?
• Risk management?
• Management strategy?
Recommendations for
management approach
The E-waste Project
• State of the art critical review
• Evaluate regulatory and management provisions
and identify current and future challenges
• Provide recommendations that are based on
science and globally informed
• From science to policy
• A global project that fosters collaboration with
other international organisations
• New emerging pollutant list
• Future activities
Milestones
2015
2016
2017
2018
•May - SETAC conference Barcelona: satellite workshop – Kick off
•Sep - 15th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the
Environment Leipzig : satellite workshop
• Jan – finalise the structure of the proposed documentation
• Jun - Finalise plan for the 2017 workshop
• Aug - 46th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress workshop
• Dec – address feedback from the workshop
• Mar – finalise document and send for review
• Aug – submit for publication
Thank you