Botswana Has an E-Waste Problem Nobody's Talking About
Every year, thousands of tonnes of old laptops, phones, printers, and servers pile up across Botswana. Most of it ends up in landfills — or worse, burned in open air.
Here's why that matters:
The health risk is real. E-waste contains lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants. When these leach into soil and water, they don't go away. Communities near informal dump sites are exposed daily.
Businesses are sitting on stockpiles. Most companies in Gaborone, Francistown, and Maun have rooms full of dead IT equipment they don't know what to do with. Banks, schools, government offices — everyone has this problem.
There's no excuse anymore. Proper e-waste recycling infrastructure exists. Certified collection. Documented chain of custody. Disposal certificates for your records. It just needs to be accessible and affordable.
That's exactly what we built e-Waste Botswana to solve. We handle pickup, sorting, certified recycling, and give you the paperwork to prove you did it right.
If you're a business owner, IT manager, or just someone with a drawer full of old phones — this is your sign to deal with it properly.
♻️ Botswana deserves better than a landfill full of circuit boards.
