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a. The establishment of facilities to properly recycle e-waste in all countries, aiming
at a four-fold increase in the number of facilities compared to today, especially
in developing countries, where such facilities are the least present, with the

following conditions:
i. If countries cannot create factories for recycling for extreme reasons
such as lack of resources, they will be, after due investigation, given

permission to ship their e-waste to another country that can handle the
influx, which will be arranged in a way that is beneficial to both countries,
ii. The countries responsible for almost 60% of the global e-waste

production will also take responsibility in order to establish recycling
facilities in their countries if possible, thus avoiding the cost of exporting
electronic waste and shortening the complicated customs process,
b. The financing of these investments using aid in the context of the SDGs as well

as regional development banks,
c. Maximum efforts by States to achieve the goal by 2035,
d. Biannual member State reports to ITU on the advancement of the goal, with

reports to be sent to all other members States;

3. Pushes forward a global transition towards a circular economy, and in order to achieve
this, suggests that:

a. Development aid allocated for SDGs should finance, inter alia, transition
towards a circular economy,
b. Countries should provide incentives to companies to change their designs in

order for them to be capable of reusing, updating, and eliminating waste,
c. Countries and companies should cooperate to design and implement take-
back systems through which electronic products and materials will be returned

to be reused or updated,
d. Experimental projects of circular economies should be encouraged with the
help of regional development banks and other financial international

institutions,
e. Circular economies should be developed as a reducer of the informal economy
for EEE recycling, which is dangerous for public health and environment;

4. Proposes the establishment of a label which guarantees and promotes the use of
sustainable materials by companies in the creation of EEE, which:
a. Encourages companies to produce more sustainably,

b. Encourages companies to produce universal systems (e.g. mobile phone
chargers),

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