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Plan Ceibal

HQ 🇺🇾 Uruguay · 1 project tracked

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Uruguay's Laptop-for-Every-Child Program Now Refurbishes Its Own Dead Laptops

Waste & Recycling

🇺🇾 Uruguay

Plan Ceibal, the agency that put a computer in the hands of every Uruguayan schoolchild, handles just 1% of the country's imported electronics yet accounts for 14% of the e-waste Uruguay actually processes.

170tonnes per yearE-waste collected per year
75percentShare of that e-waste reused or recycled (more than)
14percentShare of Uruguay's processed e-waste attributable to Ceibal's recovery
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