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 Dutch WEEE Flows 2020: What happened between 2010 and 2018?
“The Dutch WEEE Flows 2020: What happened between 2010 and 2018?” quantifies the 2018 Dutch WEEE Flows in 2018 manner

EU-28, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland collect and report 55% of WEEE
UNITAR/United Nations University present an in-depth review on the WEEE Collection Rates in the EU-28, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, which

Future of Electric Vehicles and Material Resources: A Foresight Brief by SCYCLE and UNEP/IETC
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer an opportunity to replace fossil fuels in the transport sector. Electrification of the transport sector can

24th UN Organization Joins UN Family in Bonn
Bonn, Germany – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Opens Office in Bonn, Germany Media contact: bonn@unitar.org | +49-228-815-0213

GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY:
14th July 2020 PROMOTING COMPETITIVNESS AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION A new course by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) What

E-waste will double by 2050.
E-waste will double by 2050. Business-as-usual is not an option to cope with it: UN Initiative. E-waste is referred to

Person in the Port (PiP) Study
About 3/4 of 60,000 tonnes of used electronic equipment shipped to Nigeria in both 2015 and 2016 originated from EU

Release of Mercury Report
14 December, Bonn – “In 2017, 6.2 million metric tonnes (Mt) of mercury-added product waste were generated worldwide, of which