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EWASTE AFRICA

e-waste management, driving growth through proactive
opportunities and delivering on-time, in-full solutions.
MISSION
Our mission is to provide an environmentally ethical,
legally compliant, and cost effective waste management
solution for the African market by seizing opportunities
and delivering on-time, in-full solutions.
KEY PERSONNEL
CEO: CEO: Pravashen Naidoo
Pravashen Naidoo Chief Technology Officer: Dr Mark Williams-Wynn
Regional Manager (Cape): Mmakoma Komape
Full Name of Company: EWaste Africa Regional Manager (Inland): Ms. Antoinette Maree
Nature of Business: Waste management CONTACT DETAILS
Services / Products: E-waste recycling HEAD OFFICE
Date Established: 2014 Physical Address: 102 Shortts Retreat Road, Mkondeni,
Customer Base: 300+ 3201, KwaZulu-Natal
Tel: +27 (0)87 55 00 428
No. of Employees: 42 E-mail: info@ewasteafrica.net
Industry Quality Standards: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 Website: www.ewasteafrica.net
B-BBEE Status: Level 1 BRANCHES
VISION KwaZulu-Natal (Mkondeni), Gauteng (Boksburg),
To be the preferred partner and global thought leader in Western Cape (Cape Town)

TRANSFORMING WASTE INTO and align with environmental, social, and governance
OPPORTUNITY (ESG) and zero-waste-to-landfill goals. The company’s
approach is firmly rooted in the circular economy
EWaste Africa is an award-winning recycler of model, which transforms discarded materials into
electronic and lighting waste, recognised for its legal valuable resources and reduces reliance on raw
compliance and environmentally ethical practices. extraction.
Since its founding in 2014, the company has grown Pioneering Light Bulb Recycling
into one of Southern Africa’s most innovative players
in the e-waste sector. By working with corporates, A defining achievement in the company’s history
producer responsibility organisations, government was the commissioning of Africa’s first commercial
entities, and environmentally conscious citizens, it light bulb recycling plant in Pietermaritzburg. Prior
helps manage electronic waste in a way that is both to 2013, the continent lacked both the technology
sustainable and practical. and expertise to recycle this waste stream effectively.
The company now operates two hazardous waste
Headquartered in Pietermaritzburg, EWaste Africa management facilities and has already recycled more
operates two advanced recycling facilities and than 25 million light bulbs.
manages a network of more than 80 public drop-off
points across South Africa. With over 300 corporate Responsible Battery Management
clients, it provides an end-to-end service offering With the global rise of clean energy technologies,
that covers on-site storage, collection, transportation, PV module waste has emerged as one of the most
recycling, and the beneficiation of end products. pressing challenges. EWaste Africa has developed
EWaste Africa is a trusted partner for companies a process to recycle the PV modules, recovering any
seeking to meet South Africa’s e-waste requirements metals and using the bulk of the module (which is

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