Read our new E-waste Reports
Monitoring the quantities and flows of e-waste is essential for evaluating developments over time, and to set and assess targets towards a sustainable society and circular economy. The development of a recycling infrastructure, sound policies, and legal instruments are more efficiently implemented on the basis of sound e-waste data. Without a global, regional and national picture of e-waste, the true nature of e-waste challenge incl. collection and recycling rates, national and regional countermeasures, but also transboundary movements and, in some cases, illegal shipments will also be incomprehensible. Therefore SCYCLE is (co-)authoring studies, the so-called Monitors, along a widely approved and supported methodology – the E-waste Statistic Guidelines – see http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6477/RZ_EWaste_Guidelines_LoRes.pdf
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The National E-waste Monitor 2024 – Uzbekistan
The National E-waste Monitor 2024 – Uzbekistan provides a detailed assessment of the current situation
ReduCE-waste: controlling e-waste imports into Tanzania
The ReduCE-waste project (funded by the PREVENT Waste Alliance, an initiative of the German Federal Government) supported the Tanzanian government
Electronic Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling: UN
Geneva / Bonn – The world’s generation of electronic waste is rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, the
Regional E-waste Monitor for the Western Balkans
E-Waste landscape in Western Balkans: progress, obstacles, and recommendations for a more sustainable sector.
The National E-waste Monitor 2023 – Kazakhstan
The National E-waste Monitor 2023 – Kazakhstan provides an assessment of statistics, legislation, and management infrastructure of e-waste in Kazakhstan.
In West Asia, 99.9% of e-waste is mismanaged and could double by 2050
Beirut/Bonn, 30 March 2023 – A shift to a circular economy in West Asia would place 33 per cent less
Regional E-Waste Monitor Latin America 2022
The Regional E-waste Monitor for Latin-America 2022, results for the 13 countries participating in project UNIDO-GEF 5554 provides an assessment
First Dutch Battery Flows Monitor
UNITAR/United Nations University present an in-depth analysis of the portable battery waste flows in the Netherlands for 2019. The Netherlands
