Workshop on the Recycling of Electrical and Electronic Wastes, Risks, Environmental and Human Impacts

The workshop was held with the scientific support of UNESCO Chair on Environmental Education on 7 December 2018, on the sidelines of the first International Exhibition on Waste Management, Recycling, and the Related Machinery and Equipment, held at Shahre-Aftab International Exhibition Center in Tehran. Managing Director of Pars Charkesh Asia Company instructed the workshop. The main discussions of the workshop focused on the following topics:

• Features of electronic and electrical wastes, including toxicity, pathogenicity, stability in the environment and body of living creatures, corrosiveness and the like
• The disposal of electronic and electrical wastes is a challenging process because of the difficulty of separating the constitutive elements of such wastes and inadequate research on their recycling process
• The management of electrical and electronic waste
• Reuse methods
• Environmental pollution caused by mismanagement