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    "id": 85913,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/85913/?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, the development process of the guidelines has involved both the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Kenya Bureau of Standard, among others, for purposes of excise duty, which was introduced earlier. It is also expected that the situation will greatly improve when other countries in the region adopt the same environmental standards to cut infiltration from other countries, specifically the East African Community, where there is going to be free movement of goods, apart from free movement of people. (c) I have a write-up which I will table; a report by the UN on the recycling of E- Waste; from E-Waste to resources. That is the report that I have here. The Report indicates that some countries have been identified for application of UNEP technology Transfer Network. In Africa, the only country that has been identified is South Africa. But Kenya has been classified among a Group A set of countries, which include Uganda, Senegal and Peru, which are the promising countries for the introduction of preprocessing technology. Class B, South Africa being one of them, consists of countries where we have innovation hubs and centres of excellence for recycling. Kenya is one among four, where there will be introduction of preprocessing technology. There will be a lot of support for that, including capacity building. Kenya is in that class because of the smaller volumes of e-waste for the formation of formal or informal recycling activities as revealed by the study that was done in 2008. Establishment of collection centres for us through our own guidelines will, therefore, ensure that sufficient volumes that are required before you move to Group B--- It is possible that we have a lot of waste that is not being collected. So, when we talk of insufficient volumes, maybe, it is because most of the waste could be lying in the laboratories or they could be dead computers in schools which have not been accounted for. The guidelines will assist in the creation of awareness to our people. They will know that “dead” cellphones or computers should be collected and sent to a particular place."
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