EPRON

Are you a Producer in the EEE sector?

This includes Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), importers, distributors, and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment.

Under Nigeria’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, producers play a key role in ensuring that electronic products are properly tracked and managed throughout their lifecycle, including End-of-Life (EoL) stages.

As part of this framework, producers contribute to the system through EPR fees, which are structured based on product market share to support the collection, recycling, and environmentally sound management of e-waste.

If you fall within these categories and are not yet registered, you are encouraged to complete your registration.

Kindly register here: https://blackbox.epron.org.ng

That old phone, broken charger, or unused electronic equipment does not simply disappear the moment you throw it away.

E-waste moves through a system from households/offices to collectors, and recycling facilities. Along the way, what happens to it depends on how and where it is disposed.

Throwing electronics away without thought can lead to improper handling, loss of valuable materials, or disposal in environments where they can cause harm.

Instead of disposing electronics carelessly, consider better options: repair, if possible, reuse when still functional, or ensure they are handed over to proper collection channels for responsible recycling.

Every electronic item has value even after use. What matters is where you allow it to go next.

E-waste management in Nigeria does not begin in formal systems, it is largely driven by a network that operates quietly across communities every day.

Informal collectors constitute an integral part of the system, moving from street to street, home to home, ensuring that electronic waste continues to flow. Their work connects households, businesses, and recycling value chains, often filling the gaps where structured systems are limited.

Despite this critical role, much of this activity remains unseen, untracked, and underrepresented within formal systems, highlighting the need for stronger integration that connects informal networks to structured waste management frameworks.

A clear understanding of how the system operates is essential for shaping solutions that do not exclude these existing networks, but rather integrate them into a more inclusive and sustainable e-waste management framework.