475 Copyright © 2016, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 23 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0097-1.ch023 ABSTRACT The chapter contains the concepts of Social Entrepreneurship, Planned and Perceived Obsolescence, Corporate Social Responsibility, the legal framework for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) waste, and Reverse Logistics, as theoretical support from diferent authors. Applied to Manizales, Colombia, the study was conducted with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The information was collected through surveys and interviews with 26 entrepreneurs and 331 households’ consumers to know the type of appliances, how they buy, change and use them, and the chain of intermediaries. With planned and perceived obsolescence, products lose their life in a short time, are dumped as Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), and collected by people of low educational and economic level that survive in precarious conditions. Due to these results and conclusions, we ofer in the chapter the opportunity to generate proposals for their inclusion and social development. 1. INTRODUCTION In Colombia, due to the few public policies related to environmental management, and specifically the control of manufacturing, distribution and sales of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), there have been implementing market strategies concerning to Planned and Perceived Obsolescence 1 (Valquíria and Bonifacio, 2013) that reduce the time of use by consumers and therefore the acceleration occurs in its abandonment as an useful object. Having completed its life cycle, the Waste of Electrical and Elec- The Electronic Obsolescence as an Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of EEE in Manizales, Colombia Diego Lopez Cardona Universidad de Manizales, Colombia Rocío del S. Tabares Hoyos Universidad de Manizales, Colombia