This is based on our intervention to reduce e waste burning in a substantial informal e waste hub in the West Bank, Palestine, a 45 km 2 region in which an estimated 5 10 metric tonnes of cables are burnt daily, causing serious environmental and public health consequences. ...Our paper describes a two pronged intervention in Palestine's e waste hub, which reduced e waste burning by 80 through a combination of economically competitive cable grinding services and an "active" community environmental policing initiative that lowered barriers to and successfully advocated for governmental policing of e waste burning. ...