Creating a Circular Economy for Electronics and Electricals in Thailand and in Mongolia

In line with ITU’s Programme of Work (2023 – 2026) on Greening Digital Transformation and Creating a Circular Economy for Electronics, this project aims to create sound recommendations for a regulatory framework for the governance of e-waste management under extended producer responsibility (EPR) in Thailand and Mongolia. Given the current regulatory status for e-waste management in Thailand, the project will build on the experiences of previous ITU projects. It will boost the existing steps being taken to regulate e waste in Thailand through the provision of technical assistance to develop a proposal for a sound legal framework, administrative arrangement and financing mechanism to implement EPR principles in the national regulation of e-waste management. Based on the current system of managing and regulating e-waste in Mongolia, the project will develop a report detailing recommendations for a proposed legal framework for the management of e-waste taking EPR into account. Such coordination may include knowledge sharing between beneficiary countries relating to their e-waste management approaches, which would be achieved through inviting relevant speakers to participate during the respective consultation processes. This approach was successfully carried out during implementation of the ITU project on Implementing the EPR Concept in Policies and Regulations for the Sound Management of E-waste – Circular Economy for Electronics, Part 4.