The National E-waste Management Week declared by the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) commences today under the theme 'E-waste free Sri Lanka'. The inauguration ceremony will be held at the BMICH today with the participation of Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha as the Chief Guest.

CEA Director General Dr. Saranga Alahapperuma said the aim of this is to draw the attention of the people on the importance of safe disposal of e-waste and to facilitate their collection. He said all its district and provincial offices including the Head Office will be kept open 24 hours during this week for the people to handover e-waste.

"We have also allocated one district for each and every private company partnered with us.

Their sales outlets will also be kept open for the public to handover the e-waste. We are determined to collect over 200 metric tons of e-waste during the week from May 26 to June 2.

We have reserved the hot line number 0719 692005 and email ewastecea@gmail.com for the public to obtain information about this program or to get details of the closest e-waste collecting points from their location," Dr. Alahapperuma said.