The Working Groups (WG) of the WEEE Forum are established for members and cover common themes across members. These form a fairly permanent structure and develop operational tools. WG CO₂, for example, seeks to harmonise the methodologies to identify the CO₂ savings associated with recycling and proper treatment; WG Scope developed a tool to assess the scope of legislation; WG Collection is setting up a platform to compile examples of best collection practices and campaigns; and WG Communication allows members to share and build experience in communicating messages to stakeholders.

The thematic Task Forces in the WEEE Forum co-ordinate on issues of current concern. At present, existing Task Forces address the following:

• Sampling at treatment plants to identify brominated flame retardants in plastics.
• Monitoring of upcoming legislation around persistent organic pollutants (POP).
• Recovery of glass from cathode ray tubes (CRT) in television sets and classification of CRT glass.
• Implications of the new, open scope of WEEE legislation.
• Management and collection of photovoltaic panels.
• Measures to counter scavenging.
• Tools to provide substantiated estimates of the quantities of WEEE in mixed metal scrap. 

Working Groups and Task Forces are open to our members only.