International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations
Tackling the e-waste challenge
WEEE Forum reaches landmark of 50 members as it works to improve e-waste management
ECOSWEEE project: e-waste research tender issued
Joint statement regarding threatened Green Deal ambitions on sustainable products
New EU funded project aiming to optimise raw material reuse and recovery
#PROsAtWork ECOTIC unveils habits of the Romanian population regarding small e-waste
Freeriding associated with photovoltaic panels management
An online toolkit to support the research of standards and regulations
20 years of e-waste legislation in Europe: what’s the way forward there and for the rest of the globe?
WEEE Flows 2: the update of WEEE collection rates, targets, flows and hoarding
New EU-funded project aims to prevent fires caused by batteries at e-waste recycling facilities
EPR Grand Challenge conference
7 December 2022 | Brussels
The WEEE Forum is turning 20 this year and so is the WEEE Directive. Many reasons to celebrate, but also to reflect on the past and ponder the future. On 7 December we gathered over 170 international e-waste experts in a high level, for-impact conference to discuss the worldwide societal challenge of e-waste.
14 October 2022 | International E-Waste Day
Recycle it all, no matter how small!
On 14 October 2022, the fifth edition of the International E-Waste Day focused on those small electrical devices that we no longer use but keep in drawers and cupboards or often toss in the general waste bin.
194 organisations from 72 countries officially registered and many more joined in by organising awareness raising activities.
Our members
There are currently 50 members of the WEEE Forum. These members are not-for-profit WEEE producer responsibility organisations (or ‘producer compliance schemes’) mainly in Europe, but we have recently expanded globally and are now pleased to include members from six different continents.
Our members represent electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers covering the whole spectrum of production from small electronic devices, such as cellphones, through to large household appliances like refrigerators and other large items, for example photovoltaic panels.
Collected WEEE
Since their founding, the producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum have collected, de-polluted and recycled or sent for preparation for re-use 35 million tonnes of WEEE. More than 3.1 million tonnes of this was collected in 2021.
In addition, our members operate over 114,000 WEEE collection points and two thirds of them are market leaders in their countries.