Publication type: Report
Waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is regulated by the WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) in the European Union. (1) Article 7 of the WEEE Directive states that the minimum collection rate to be achieved annually by a member state shall be 65% of the average weight of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) in the three preceding years or, alternatively, 85% of WEEE generated on the territory of a member state. In the Netherlands, WEEELABEX standard requirements are mandatory for WEEE treatment. This report presents the EEE POM, WEEE Generated, the compliantly regulated WEEE Collection, and the WEEE Flows outside of the regulated WEEE management system in the Netherlands. The methodology of the study followed an internationally recognized measurement framework to integrate all available statistical data, field studies, household and business surveys, internal data from compliance schemes, and data from the National WEEE Register (NWR) for the Netherlands. The results for 2018 have been compared to the data of the methodologically equivalent Dutch WEEE Flows Study, which was conducted for reference year 2010. The main findings are shown in Figure 1. In 2018, the WEEE Generated was 366 kt, half of which was registered as compliantly recycled in the NWR. Approximately one quarter is calculated to be non-compliantly recycled (27%), and roughly another quarter was disposed of in waste bins or exported for reuse, or could not be documented. In 2010, approximately one third (39%) was compliantly recycled, one third was non-compliantly recycled (34%), and another third (27%) was disposed of in waste bins, exported for reuse, or could not be documented. In essence: the ‘one third, one third, one third’ of 2010 improved to ‘half, one quarter, one quarter’ in 2018.
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