Both legislators and the citizens who vote for them have indicated they are in favor of seeing obsolete electronics recycled responsibly. In the European Union and elsewhere, there seems to be less agreement on how to best achieve optimal waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling rates.
Even before recycling techniques are compared, the Brussels based WEEE Forum says it finds fault with how collection rates in EU member countries are calculated.
In July of last year, the European Commission (EC) called on all each EU nation to meet obsolete electronics collection and recycling targets set several years earlier. “Whilst the WEEE Forum acknowledges that much more WEEE must be separately collected for responsible management and to recover (critical) materials, we also believe that it highlights the need to thoroughly revise [the] legislation.”
