The Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) project, funded by the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented in Egypt by the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab......
Accra, 29th April 2022 – The Ghanaian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Ministry for the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) has launched the newly developed Standard Operating Procedures......
A new report on Standard Operating Procedures for Environmentally Sound Management of Used Lead-acid Batteries was developed by the SRI Ghana team in collaboration with various partners. The report entails......
From 15-18 November, the SRI Ghana Team together with Heinz Böni and Andreas Bill from EMPA conducted a successful field audit training with EPA auditors from all over Ghana. The......
Options for implementation Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies are being adopted to create recycling “systems” that are more sustainable. To effectively implement these requirements, there is an urgent need to......
SRI visit as part of the official state visit to Ghana On the 7th of July, Swiss Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga visited, as part of her official state visit to Ghana,......
South Africa, 16 February: Today marked the official beginning of a high-profile collaboration between key stakeholders in South Africa and Switzerland to meet South Africa’s rising future e-waste challenge.......
A pilot testing for the ISO IWA 19: 2017 Guidance Principles for Inclusive and Sustainable Recycling was conducted by Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) partners in 10 facilities in Colombia, Ghana,......
Accra, 2 July 2020 – The Ghanaian Ministry for the Environment (MESTI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with support from Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) have begun to address the......
Cairo, 10 March 2020 – Switzerland and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have agreed to extend the Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) project in Egypt, originally launched in 2016......