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Article: Global meeting on electronic waste kicks off in Kenya
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 27, 2006
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Global meeting on electronic waste kicks off in Kenya
NAIROBI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- About 600 delegates from 120
countries across the world on Monday kicked off a meeting to seek
solutions to the world's rising tide of electronic wastes (e-waste)
in Nairobi, Kenya.
"This week's meeting will address many issues not least the rising
tide of electronic waste, but it would be impossible for me not to
refer to the tragic events in Cote d'Ivoire," Achim Steiner,
Executive Director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), said at the
opening of the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Waste and their Disposal.