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“Philips perceives StEP as an international stakeholder platform that results in a better understanding of e-waste management for all parties involved and creates improvement opportunities for recycling systems worldwide.”
Eelco Smit -Senior Director Sustainability
Philips Consumer Lifestyle“We joined StEP to be part of the solution. StEP provides a platform for the Univerity to engage with other stakeholders and other interested parties to develop a solution to the global problem of e-waste."
Margaret Bates - Reader in Sustainable Wastes Management
Centre of Sustainable Wastes Management, University of Northhampton“Partnership and knowledge transfer are the two key issues for joining the StEP Initiative. There is a need to apply an environmental and economical sound e-waste management system in the Middle East & North Africa in cooperation with the StEP members."
Hossam Allam - Regional Programme Manager
CEDARE - Centre for Environmental and Development for the Arab Region & Europe, Egypt“StEP is a great way to work on the really big e-waste issues with people from industry, government and academia."
Colin Fitzpatrick - Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Lecturer
University of Limerick“StEP provides a global platform, enables knowledge exchange and bridges the North-South gap. Empa as a research institute and co-founder of StEP strongly supports this important endeavor."
Heinz Böni - Critical Materials and Resource Efficiency Group (CARE), Head of Research Group
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
