Product stewardship schemes are used around the world to improve the life-cycle management of a wide range of products including, but not limited to, packaging, mattresses, mercury containing lamps, tyres, agricultural chemicals, even unwanted medicines, by shifting physical and/or financial responsibility to producers. Product stewardship seeks to ensure that some or all responsibility for the end-of-life management of a product (being the collection, resource recovery, recycling and residual disposal) is wholly or partly fulfilled by the product manufacturer and / or brand owner. New Zealand’s Minister for the Environment approved project funding from the Waste Minimisation Fund (WMF) to assist in the development of a product stewardship framework for ‘e-waste’ through stakeholder engagement and consultation, collection and analysis of e-waste data specific to New Zealand and analysis of product stewardship options for e-waste. In order to assess the end-of-life management of e-waste and consider an appropriate product stewardship, this project fundamentally examined whether e-waste is an environmental problem that the market does not address and whether product stewardship is an appropriate approach to effectively manage e-waste. It is impractical to consider all e-waste as a single entity, it is more appropriate to examine distinct categories of e-waste. This project has examined 11 categories of e-waste. The e-waste categories were assessed using currently available research, knowledge of the current situation in New Zealand together with stakeholder advice and feedback in order to determine how product stewardship may address the issues of:  Potential environmental harm of the e-waste product(s);  Potential resource benefit from recycling or recovery of a product(s);  Whether the product(s) can be effectively managed through a product stewardship scheme;  Whether there is evidence that the product(s) can be effectively managed through a voluntary product stewardship scheme; and  Public concerns about potential environmental harm. This study has identified that the level of New Zealand specific data for e-waste products is currently insufficient to satisfy the requirements of the priority product designation criteria as detailed in Section 2.3 of this report. Although there has been strong support from some stakeholder groups throughout this process for priority product designation the information required by Cabinet is currently not sufficient to make a determination. The final framework presented in Section 5 of this report is intended to be used as a tool for determining whether a product is suitable for management under a product stewardship approach and what other complementary regulations might be used to support improved e-waste management. Stakeholders are invited to comment on this report by Friday 22 May 2015 to help inform a final version that will be submitted to the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) for consideration.