International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations
Tackling the e-waste challenge
New EU-funded project aims to prevent fires caused by batteries at e-waste recycling facilities
Response to the Call for Evidence regarding the proposed CRM Act
#PROsAtWork UFH: SECONTRADE – a digital marketplace for secondary raw materials
194 organisations worldwide raise the profile of the global e-waste issue on the fifth International E-Waste Day
Sub-contract Tender for FutuRaM Project
Response to the Call for Evidence in view of the evaluation of WEEE legislation
International E-waste Day: Of ~16 Billion Mobile Phones Possessed Worldwide, ~5.3 Billion will Become Waste in 2022
Thought paper: global and complementary actions for electronics extended producer responsibility
WEEE Forum part of collaboration that aims to tackle increasing digital health waste
The WEEE Forum is recruiting a Communication Assistant
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 will gather international e-waste experts in a high level, for-impact conference to discuss the worldwide societal challenge of e-waste.
Join us to celebrate, discuss and meet your peers from all over the world!
14 October 2022 | International E-Waste Day
Recycle it all, no matter how small!
This year, 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 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 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.