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AppCyclers in Collaboration with CREATE SEED Set to Organise an E-waste Collection & Repair Drive in Tamale to Commemorate International E-waste Day.

Posted on October 5, 2021No Comments

AppCyclers, a tamale-based electronic waste (e-waste) management company, is delighted to announce the second edition of the AppCyclers E-waste Awareness Campaign. This year, in partnership with CREATE SEED, a Collaborative Research and Training Experience in Sustainable Electronics and Eco-Design funding by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), are set to organise an […]

EPA rolls out an e-waste management programme in Accra, Ghana.

Posted on October 2, 2021No Comments

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun a programme to collect electrical and electronic waste for proper disposal. The initiative, which is a partnership between the EPA and Excellent Waste Management, includes visit to public and private establishments to inspect and collect e-waste for recycling. At the launch of the pilot programme in Accra yesterday, […]

Scrap dealers and E-waste specific MSMEs schooled on modern ways to manage electronic waste

Posted on August 20, 2021No Comments

Micro, Small and Medium Businesses engaged in electronic waste across the country are being sensitized to employ modern ways to properly manage electronic waste. The project is expected to assist informal scrap dealers, electronic waste managers and MSMEs alike to relook their activities, do away with their old approach of waste management. “If you visit […]

AppCyclers Solutions To Mitigate E-Waste And Migrations

Posted on April 27, 2021No Comments

Research has shown that in Ghana, about 63% of the labour forces that work as scavengers of e-waste at Agbogboloshie are from the northern region. The situation of migrating from the northern part of the country to the southern sector to make ends meet is very serious. How do we bridge this gap? What do we […]

AppCyclers joins the second cohort of UNICEF Startup Lab

Posted on April 21, 2021No Comments

UNICEF StartUp Lab Announces Twenty-Two Startups Joining the Second Cohort Accra, Ghana – 12th April 2021 – Today, UNICEF announced the launch of the 2021 cohort of the UNICEF StartUp Lab – a co-creation space and accelerator, that engages young startups in the development of innovative, open-source, market-driven products and solutions that address complex problems impacting the well-being […]

AppCyclers Launches an Edu-Waste Radio Tour on the theme E-waste: A Menace Yet Unknown.

Posted on February 15, 2021No Comments

AppCyclers is an innovative startup and a social enterprise in Tamale focused on providing e-waste education, e-waste collection services, e-waste recycling and upcycling solutions to promote a safer and greener environment in Ghana and Africa at large. As part of our responsibility, we sensitize households, offices, schools and all communities that are committed to ideals […]

AppCyclers An Innovative E-waste Management Startup In Tamale To Organise An E-waste Awareness Campaign On International E-waste Day.

Posted on February 6, 2021No Comments

Waste management in Ghana specifically E-waste management has been the intervention startups seek to address. However, the problem is still in the system and needs more hands. This is why AppCyclers present an E-Waste Awareness Campaign to the general populace. This will commemorate the International E-Waste Day as well as educate and sensitize the general […]

AppCyclers, EazyWaste & BorlaDaakye Partners For World Cleanup Day 2020 Sensitization Content

Posted on January 15, 2021No Comments

As we observe World Cleanup Day today, we should be mindful that there will be more plastic and e-waste in the oceans and landfills by 2050 if nothing is done. Littered plastic is clogging drains and causing overflows. And unmanaged plastic is polluting our precious oceans and waterways. The negative impacts that plastic is causing […]

E-waste – An obstacle to children in Northern Ghana.

Posted on January 15, 2021No Comments

On the subject of truth, e-waste has become an obstacle for children in Ghana to pursue their education. In Northern Ghana, Tamale chunks of discarded refrigerators and television are packed and left in openings in repair stores along our street. With the sun and the rains releasing toxic chemicals into our landfill. AppCyclers an innovative start-up […]