The E-Waste Column (EdTech, innovation, and news platform)

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The E-Waste Column is an educational initiative and impact ecosystem of the social enterprise, Palsa & Pulk. It was founded by Christine Nikander in September 2022 with the aim to close knowledge gaps, connect stakeholders, and create action around e-waste and electronics circularity. Over the years, The E-Waste Column has grown into an EdTech, innovation, and news platform. Today, it serves different stakeholders across four interconnected hubs: learning, innovation, action, and career. As a multi-stakeholder platform, The E-Waste Column now acts as a type of "circular transition broker".

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Since being established, The E-Waste Column has helped thousands of users to understand the social and environmental impacts of electronic devices throughout their whole lifecycle and their entire global supply chains. ​In recognition of this impact, it was featured in The Bloom's 30 Under 30 Social Impact list in December 2024 and invited to join UNIDO's Global Electronics Management Programme as a stakeholder in October 2025.

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You can explore the platform here: www.theewastecolumn.com

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The E-Waste Column (weekly column)

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The E-Waste Column is a weekly column about e-waste, transition minerals, and critical raw materials. It touches on a range of topics including ESG, sustainable development, circular economy, EU law and policymaking, corporate social responsibility, the transition to renewable energy, the EU Green Deal, supply chain due diligence and auditing, human environmental rights, business and human rights, climate law, and corporate sustainability.

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You can explore the column here: www.theewastecolumn.com/column

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The E-Waste Newsletter

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The E-Waste Newsletter is a monthly newsletter that explores recent developments in e-waste, critical raw materials, and the just transition in closer detail. It is published on LinkedIn, Substack, and the webpages of The E-Waste Column.

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You can explore the newsletter here: www.theewastecolumn.com/newsletter

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The E-Waste Podcast

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The E-Waste Podcast is a new podcast that will cover ways to better manage e-waste globally and move towards more electronics circularity. The podcast's aim is to capture the depth of the unwritten knowledge and practical know-how found amongst entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, academics, and experts working in the sector. Throughout each of its episodes, the podcast will highlight the role that circularity and the sustainable management of electronics lifecycles and supply chains play in advancing global progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

You can explore the podcast here: www.theewastecolumn.com/podcast

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The E-Waste Learning Hub (for companies)​

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The E-Waste Learning Hub is an e-learning platform focused on raw materials, e-waste, the circular economy, and the energy transition. It has been designed for companies in the electronics, technology, mining, waste management, renewable energy, and related sectors looking to train their employees. It can be used to help existing employees attain a broader understanding of electronics lifecycles and supply chains or to help new employees – who have joined from another sector or field – in getting up to speed quickly and easily.

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The E-Waste Learning Hub strives to be the easiest place to understand electronics lifecycles and supply chains. It currently offers text-based learning through 140+ short-format modules, and it will soon also offer easily accessible oral education through a podcast. The modular structure in the course content allows you to pick and choose the exact topics you are looking to understand, so you can start and end with what is most relevant to you.​

 

You can explore the hub here: www.theewastecolumn.com/learning-hub

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The E-Waste Learning Hub (for individuals & civil society)

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The E-Waste Learning Hub is an e-learning platform. Its aim is to democratize knowledge on raw materials, e-waste, the circular economy, and the energy transition. It currently consists of 140+ short-form modules that cover: 🖥️ Artificial Intelligence, 🔋 Batteries, 🐝 Biodiversity, ♻️ Circularity, 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Citizens' Action, 🏢 Corporate Action, ✏️ Design, ⚡ Energy Transition, 🌍 Environment & Climate, 🗑️ E-Waste, ♀️ Gender, 🌐 Governance, ✊🏽 Human Rights, 🌿 Indigenous Rights, 🤖 Innovation, 🌱 Just Transition, ⚖️ Justice, ⚒️ Mining, 🗺️ Product Passports, 🏭 Raw Materials, ☀️ Renewables, and 🌳 Sustainable Development.
 
The goal behind The E-Waste Learning Hub is to empower citizens, businesses, and civil society to use electronics and modern technology more responsibly. It has been built on the belief that tech can be a catalyst for large-scale positive societal change, so long as we are willing to engage in critical thinking and inclusive discourses on its use. In line with this, the learning hub aims to encourage society at large to explore how to design, produce, use, and engage with tech in more ethical and sustainable ways. Amongst others, its learning modules aim to help readers and users to explore how tech can be used to protect our planet or to contribute to the upholding of social and labor rights globally.

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You can explore the hub here: www.theewastecolumn.com/learning-hub

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TransitionED

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TransitionED is the e-learning app of The E-Waste Column. It offers users the option to follow the learning modules of The E-Waste Learning Hub on their mobile and tablet devices. It currently consists of 140+ short-form modules that cover: 🖥️ Artificial Intelligence, 🔋 Batteries, 🐝 Biodiversity, ♻️ Circularity, 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Citizens' Action, 🏢 Corporate Action, ✏️ Design, ⚡ Energy Transition, 🌍 Environment & Climate, 🗑️ E-Waste, ♀️ Gender, 🌐 Governance, ✊🏽 Human Rights, 🌿 Indigenous Rights, 🤖 Innovation, 🌱 Just Transition, ⚖️ Justice, ⚒️ Mining, 🗺️ Product Passports, 🏭 Raw Materials, ☀️ Renewables, and 🌳 Sustainable Development.

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You can explore the app here: www.theewastecolumn.com/transitioned

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The E-Waste Innovation Hub

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The E-Waste Innovation Hub builds infrastructure to foster innovation across the raw materials, electronics, and e-waste sectors. The hub helps in finding partners, expert resources, networking events, and funding. It also allows you to connect directly with others in The E-Waste Column's impact network through hub groups and to find relevant opportunities through its matchmaking tool. The goal of the innovation hub is to better align the entire value chains or value networks for raw materials, electronics, and e-waste.

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You can explore the hub here: www.theewastecolumn.com/innovation-hub

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The E-Waste Action Hub

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The E-Waste Action Hub creates measurable behavior change around e-waste and electronics circularity. The hub has different resources to help you take practical action on e-waste and electronics circularity — including best practices, impact guidance, and compliance aids.​ Its Circular Actions tool shows you a bunch of practical ways to embed circularity into the life of your electronics, and makes it easier to take tangible actions to combat e-waste.

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You can explore the hub here: www.theewastecolumn.com/action-hub

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The E-Waste Career Hub

 

The E-Waste Career Hub​ helps guide and accelerate your career in the raw materials, electronics, and e-waste sectors. The hub contains different resources to help you build and advance your career in e-waste and electronics circularity.​ Its job board is geared specifically to openings and vacancies around raw materials, e-waste, and electronics circularity, to make it faster and easier for you to find your next role in these sectors without having to sieve through thousands of job listings.

 

You can explore the hub here: www.theewastecolumn.com/career-hub​