International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations
Tackling the e-waste challenge
#PROsAtWork Erion: the evolving scenarios of critical raw materials for Italy
The WEEE Forum is recruiting a Technical Projects’ Co-ordinator
#PROsAtWork Recyclia makes e-waste disposal fun with smart containers
FutuRaM project to contribute to securing Europe’s supply of important raw materials
#PROsAtWork ECOTIC and other Spanish PROs launch the second edition of ‘Sustainable Digitization’ with the aim of reducing the digital divide
#PROsAtWork FOTOKIKLOSI S.A. teach circularity to the youngest generations in Greece
#PROsAtWork ECOTIC Spain gives new impulse to its Ecoinstallers program
Global issues call for global solutions: the WEEE Forum expands with five new members
#PROsAtWork Environ investigates on the Romanian’s habits towards e-waste
#PROsAtWork REPIC UK pitch in beach clean
EPR Grand Challenge conference
Save the date: 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. We encourage you to save the date of the EPR Grand Challenge conference in your calendar.
More details will follow soon.
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.
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.