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The project aims to improve the areas of training, awareness, legislation, harmonization, technical standards and
best practices regarding the treatment of e-waste. There are also seven sub-projects– one for each type of the
selected equipment (cathode ray tubes (CRT), cell phones, computers, tablets and flat panel displays, batteries and
telecommunication systems) and a technologically oriented development project to extract properly pre-treated
e-waste and chemical elements, which would close the financial balance of the project.
In addition, the regional project includes a number of other goals, including:

a) Providing trainings to countries to help establish e-waste collection systems in the region without damaging
or threatening the environment or the health of collectors;

b) Developing standards and best practices to make the presence of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
in the reverse chain possible;

c) Creating organized collection and dismantling systems in at least four countries of larger scale with a greater
number of EEE users;

d) Promoting the creation of institutions that will be responsible for scientific and technological development
related to the reverse chain of WEEE; and

e) Fostering the formulation of agreements between countries on cross-border movements of dismantled
equipment that serve as an input to the industry.

Therefore, in order to solve the problems posed to human health and the environment by WEEE, the project
foresees the possibility of developing a regional industry of WEEE. This would increase foreign exchange, create
job opportunities, promote the creation of new companies and the formalization of some existing initiatives, and
replace the use of raw materials, among others.

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