What is the problem?
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What ITU is Doing to Tackle
E-waste and Protect the
Environment?
What can we all do?
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Highlights on SG5 - Q21
“Environmental Protection and
Recycling of ICT Equipments/Facilities”
Some of the tasks include:
 Environmentally friendly standardization
 Share national experiences and knowledge related to
environmental and sustainability aspects
 Determine process to analyze the effect on the
environment of products and ways to minimize
them.
 Assess environmental effects of recycling related to
ICT facilities, equipments, etc.
 Analyze safe, low-cost social recirculation of ICT
equipments through recycling and reuse.
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International
Telecommunication
Union
Q21
Recommendation ITU-T L.1000
Universal Mobile Charger
Saves 82,000 tons of waste per year
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ONGOING - Recommendation on
Universal Power Supply
An ITU-GeSI Energy-aware Survey on ICT
Device Power Supplies
 Study on a wide set (more than 300) of External Power Supplies (EPSs)
 Found major opportunity to reduce e-waste and weight
 Main outcomes on e-waste:
1.000.000 tons of EPSs are produced every year
There is the opportunity to go for standardization
Careful design could save 300.000 tons of e-waste/year
A standardized solution could save more than 500.000 tons
of e-waste/year
the report points to an urgent need for standards to correct
glaring inefficiencies in the EPS production process
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Best way to deal with e-waste is to avoid its creation
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