{"id":36448,"date":"2017-12-07T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-launches-electronic-waste-recycling\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:55:08","slug":"rwanda-launches-electronic-waste-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-launches-electronic-waste-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda launches electronic waste recycling facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2014, the Rwanda Green Fund invested $1.5 million (about Rwf1.26 billion) in a project that sought to recycle and dismantle e-waste.<\/p>\n

The facility will help to recycle e-waste materials to avoid adverse effects to human health and environment.<\/p>\n

Among the said materials are fridges, washing machines, cooking machines, heaters and telephones among other non-usable electronic materials that people continue to store in their houses.<\/p>\n

Some of these materials will be recycled while others will be dismantled so they cannot harm the environment. <\/p>\n

In the six months of operation, the facility has recycled 200 desktops.<\/p>\n

Dr. Biruta said that e-waste is a problem which requires concerted efforts to tackle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that e-waste is a big problem in different countries around the world, harming the environment and affecting human health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The Minister for Environment, Dr. Vincent Biruta has launched an electronic waste recycling and dismantling facility that was constructed in Bugesera District, Eastern Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36448"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36448"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}