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    "id": 85912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/85912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of dumping, dumping is mainly as a result of donations that we receive from the West, which our institutions have been receiving continuously since the dawn of the era of computers. Currently, there is only one NGO in Kenya called Computers for Schools Programme that takes in all computers to refurbish them for use in schools. The obsolete components, however, are re-exported back. There are several European countries that accept obsolete components. In particular, components are re-exported to Belgium, Norway, Netherlands and China, where they recover some of the metals for their own use. This is mainly due to lack of requisite technology in our country to do the same. (b) I am aware that the duty charged on imported refurbished computers has not helped the situation and this is because, as I mentioned earlier, the kind of electronic equipment we receive are donations and being donations they are valued very low. So, even if you ask them to pay 25 per cent that is absolutely low. So, this has not reduced significantly the amount that we receive. The draft E-Waste guidelines, however, proposed also that there should be a setback scheme which would enable the public to return all electrical and electronic equipment for collection by producers, manufacturers, distributors and even the service providers so that if you import anything that is electronic you take it back. The collection centers will be established by the same institutions because that will be their own garbage and should be operated by themselves, so that people can only dump whatever has gone obsolete. The same manufacturers and producers would be encouraged to have the option of setting up treatment facilities to refurbish and recycle for themselves whatever has been rendered useless, or reship them to countries that have the technology; I have mentioned about four of them in my earlier answer."
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