International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations

Tackling the e-waste challenge

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14 October 2022 | International E-Waste Day
Recycle it all, no matter how small!
This year, the main focus of International E-Waste Day will be those small electrical devices that we no longer use but keep in drawers and cupboards or often toss in the general waste bin.
Last year, 172 organisations from 78 countries participated in #ewasteday by organising awareness raising activities. See how you can be part of it this October.

WEEE Flows report and WEEE Forum's vision paper
After nearly two decades since the creation of EU legislation on WEEE and despite huge effort and advancement, most Member States have not reached the WEEE collection targets.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research highlights in its latest study the factors that impede formal/official collection and concludes that, in order to achieve the minimum collection rate, Member States have to divert a high proportion of WEEE that currently goes unreported. In its vision paper, based on UNITAR's report, the WEEE Forum lays out four vital steps that need to be taken to ensure the system is fair and achievable and conveys its vision for the future of Extended Producer Responsibility.
Our members
There are currently 46 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 foundation, the producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum have collected, de-polluted and recycled or sent for preparation for re-use 28.5 million tonnes of WEEE. More than 3 million tonnes of this was collected in 2020.
In addition, our members operate over 114,000 WEEE collection points and two thirds of them are market leaders in their countries.