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Kenya opens first e-waste management plant

Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) has opened East Africa's first e-waste management plant in Embakasi, Kenya, to handle the region's electronic recycling needs.

8 Aug 2008

The project, undertaken in collaboration with the Nairobi City Council and the local Embakasi community, will dismantle and separate electronic waste from Kenya and eventually from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

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