ALTROCONSUMO/ERION WEEE ENQUIRY “WEEE: WHO SAW IT?”

Erion WEEE and Altroconsumo carried out the survey “WEEE: Who saw it?”, which monitored the destination of 370 WEEE (300 large appliances and 70 small ones) originating from the various regions of Italy.

EU countries collect and manage more WEEE in an environmentally appropriate way than the rest of the world. However, the commitment is not yet sufficient to reach the set collection targets. Italy is particularly lagging behind: the WEEE return rate in our country in 2022 stopped at 34 per cent, compared to the much more ambitious European target of 65 per cent. This gap is in large part due to the existence of unofficial WEEE management flows, i.e. that grey area made up of illegal trades, inadequate treatment, and potentially harmful to human health and the environment, in which all too often the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment that escapes the “formal” system managed by the Producers’ Collective Systems ends up.

The results of the investigation show that there is a system of parallel flows that lives and thrives thanks to inadequate controls.

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