International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations
Tackling the e-waste challenge
International E-Waste Day resonates around the world!
WEEE Forum’s International E-Waste Day set to be huge success
ITU announced as International E-Waste Day partner
Minimum quality standards for treatment of WEEE
Industry bodies ask for caution and coherence in eco-modulation of e-sector fees
2nd International E-Waste Day aims to raise public awareness of e-waste
New web platform presents data on WEEE collection systems
WEEE Forum appoints Global Ambassador to support its worldwide focus
PROs discuss the issue of eco-modulation of fees
Countering online free-riders
Our members
There are currently 36 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 North America and Australasia.
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 foundation, the producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum have collected, de-polluted and recycled or sent for preparation for re-use 21.2 million tonnes of WEEE, 2.2 million tonnes of this was collected in 2018, which was almost two thirds of WEEE collected in Europe during that year.
In addition, our members operate over 114,000 WEEE collection points and two thirds of them are market leaders in their countries.
International E-Waste Day
Only 20% of global e-waste is recycled each year, which means that 40 million tonnes of e-waste is either placed in landfill, burned or illegally traded and treated in a sub-standard way, and this is despite 66% of the world’s population being covered by e-waste legislation.
International E-Waste Day has been developed by the WEEE Forum to help to address this huge issue and promote global e-waste recycling. 112 organisations from 48 countries across the world got involved in the most recent International E-Waste Day, on 14th October 2019, by arranging their own activities to unite in tackling the e-waste challenge.
Data Platforms
Businesses need access to solid, topical and relevant data to gain an understanding of the sector they operate in and to make sound business decisions. Yet this data and market intelligence is often either non-existent or difficult to access. This is why the WEEE Forum gets involved in projects that gather critical data on electrical and electronic equipment, WEEE and related fields, analyses this data and then presents it in accessible data platforms where it can be retrieved and put to use as businesses require.
Visit our Resources pages and Projects & Campaigns Directory to find out more.