Foundation & Missions

Since January 2018, ecosystem (previously called ESR) combines the activities of Eco-systèmes for household WEEE and Récylum for lighting equipment, professional WEEE and small fire extinguishers. ecosystem therefore benefits from the decade-long expertise of Eco-systèmes and Récylum in the WEEE sector.

ecosystem is a non-profit organisation accredited by the French Authorities. In accordance with French and European regulations, ecosystem carries out a mission of public interest, i.e. the deployment throughout France of a system for collection, depollution and recycling of household and professional WEEE, lighting equipment and small fire extinguishers.

Collection System

ecosystem have set services to collect WEEE among different channels:

• Retailers,
• Municipalities,
• Social economy,
• Waste management companies (scrap dealers, car shredder operators, recycling companies…),
• Professional users of professional EEE.

Members

In 2018, ecosystem had 3,910 producer members :

• 2,096 of them operated household WEEE,
• 1,585 of them operated professional WEEE,
• 829 of them operated lighting equipment,
• 22 of them operated small fire extinguishers