Marginalised social groups in contemporary weee management within social enterprises investments: A study in Greece

This paper deals with the creation of appropriate conditions aimed at developing social services for reuse and recycling, of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), by the inclusion of handicapped and Roma people in the workforce. Application areas for the project are the Hellenic (Greek) regions of Thessaly and North Aegean, where these groups suffer from professional and social exclusion. The efforts to reduce unemployment in the two aforementioned groups, together with the efforts to implement related Greek and European legislation for sustainable WEEE management, are examined here. Furthermore, networking and cooperation at local, regional and central levels between small enterprises, entrepreneurships and local authorities are examined, so that these social enterprises and their corresponding investments May support I he development of the Greek alternative WEEE recycling system. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.