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Read our introduction on e-Waste here . Read the first part of our conversation with ERTH here . e-Waste is a growing pain in today’s world. We enjoy the convenience of electronic devices, but are we managing them when their use life is due?  Our journalists at Charisma Movement made a visit to Electronic Recycling Through Heroes (ERTH) ’s warehouse in Cyberjaya to meet its founder, Mohamed Tarek El-Fatatry, for a conversation on the importance of managing e-Waste the right way, and how ERTH plays a part in pushing for the environmental agenda.  CM: For most of us, our lives are highly dependent on electronic devices, much more than our parents and grandparents when they were growing up. The rate of e-Waste production only increases, but our rate of e-Waste recycling does not quite keep up. What do you think contributes to this problem?    Tarek : For the past five years, the problem in Malaysia is the lack of infrastructure. If you have a lot of e-Waste, say on...

Read our introduction on e-Waste here . Electronic Recycling Through Heroes (ERTH) offers e-Waste collection service from your preferred location (home or office) and recycles all collected materials at a licensed processor which ensures that proper SOPs are adopted in managing the e-Waste, from the technical end to the labour end. First established in 2019, ERTH is now the largest e-Waste collector in Malaysia and it plays a huge role in conserving the environment. The journalists at Charisma Movement were intrigued by ERTH’s work, especially the gap it fills in Malaysia’s waste management industry and how it has managed to gain consumers’ confidence leading to a dominant market share within only a few years’ time. Thus, we made a trip to ERTH’s warehouse in Cyberjaya for a visit, and sat down with one of ERTH’s key founders, Mohamed Tarek El-Fatatry, for a conversation on ERTH’s founding story and the e-Waste management scene in Malaysia.  CM: Tell us how the idea of ERTH come ...