Other Potential Failures

Economic profitability of transfer from informal to formal sector does not necessarily ensure that transfer would take place.

• Problematic legal status of informal recyclers.

• Insufficient knowledge on the part of informal collectors and dismantlers.

• Lack of capital to establish an interface organisation, need to establish collection facilities + system of purchasing selling & exporting circuit boards.

• Reluctance in the part of formal Recyclers to enter into business relationship with the informal sector.

• Possibility of strong Loyalties within the informal recycling chain or in informal recyclers have non economic means.

• Threats of violence, mafia for persuading collectors and dismantlers to sell to them rather than interface organisation.

Informal Collectors

Interface Organisation

Time Delay

(Financial Buffer is required)

Formal Recyclers