E-waste - projects
Below is a selection of e-waste projects recently completed by Ascend Waste and Environment.
Review of compliance requirements for export of mobile phones (2017, Phonecycle)
Ascend conducted a review of the potential impact of new Basel Convention e-waste transboundary movement guidelines to PhoneCycle’s phone export procedures and, in doing so, provided a broader assessment of this process with respect to its compliance to relevant environment requirements.
Cost benefit analysis of an e-waste ban – technical support (2016, Victorian DELWP)
Ascend provided technical support to Marsden Jacob’s project with the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) to assess the costs and benefits of a potential e-waste ban in Victoria. This involved detailed modelling of hazardous components and recoverable resource element concentrations in a variety of e-wastes and their potential flows into and out of a landfill environment, to better enable calculations of the impacts that different ban-option scenarios could have.
E-waste Material Flow Analysis and infrastructure assessment (2016, Sustainability Victoria)
Ascend, along with partners Blue Environment and Randell Environmental Consulting were engaged to complete a Market Flow Analysis for e-waste in Victoria, to support the Victorian Government’s consideration of banning e-waste from landfill disposal. The project also included a detailed assessment of Victorian’s e-waste recycling infrastructure capability and capacity, and a detailed evaluation of likely future technology and market trends in e-waste processing.
Market analysis and stock take of the e-waste recycling industry in Australia (2015, Aus. Gov. Department of the Environment)
Partnering with Randell Environmental Consulting, Ascend conducted an analysis of the Australian e-waste recycling market with a specific focus on a bottom-up questionnaire-based assessment of recyclers’ current and future capacity, in the event of possible policy adjustments that may result in increased recycling targets. The work included an assessment of a range of issues important to recyclers, including how Co-regulatory Arrangements performed their role in the NTCRS.
Various projects by AScend staff within other companies
Geoff Latimer conducted a range of e-waste-specific projects while in previous employment at RAMBOLL ENVIRON and KMH Environmental, including Brominated flame retardant (in e-waste) research for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment and the review risks and costs associated with the Australian Government's E-waste interim standard, a preceding draft to Australian Standard 5377.