{
  "id": 18907866,
  "title": "Surrender old phones: Safaricom’s e-waste drive faces fresh questions after recycling falls 34%",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/surrender-old-phones-safaricoms-e-waste-drive-faces-fresh-questions",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-08T09:16:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/insights/surrender-old-phones-safaricoms-e-waste-drive-faces-fresh-questions-after-recycling-falls-34"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Safaricom’s renewed appeal for Kenyans to surrender old mobile phones and electronic accessories comes against the backdrop of a recycling programme that dates back 14 years, raising questions about the progress made in recovering electronic waste and the reasons behind a recent decline in recycling volumes. The telecommunications company recycled 190.754 tonnes of electronic waste […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}