Brussels - At its meeting on April 2010 in Copenhagen, the General Assembly of the WEEE Forum approved the 2009 Annual Report; now it has been published online. 2009 was a successful year for the WEEE Forum. First of all, its 38 members as producer responsibility organisations (PRO) collected 2 million tonnes of WEEE. That means 2 million tonnes collected, transported, properly depolluted, recycled and formally reported. This figure is up by 30 percent on 2008.

The main explanation is that all of the WEEE member organisations invested millions of euro in campaigns aimed at raising awareness among consumers and in building collection networks. It takes huge, sustained efforts to educate consumers on what to do with their end-of-life appliances.

Furthermore, as the the WEEE Forum members share best practices, good results are obtained while, at the same time, the development costs of new consumer awareness campaigns steadily decrease. Nevertheless, seen in the light of last year’s economic downturn, this performance is quite remarkable.

The PROs of the WEEE Forum, all of them run on behalf of a community of 17,000 producers Europe-wide, showed stability and the consumers did not face increasing costs.

Secondly, the WEEELABEX project took a swift start. This annual report documents the initiatives taken to prepare the ground for standards and codes of practices in the areas of collection, logistics, treatment and processing. By year-end, the WEEE Forum approved the first general normative requirements for all WEEE categories, while discussions on specific requirements continued. The Forum is indeed satisfied to see that the European Commission has approved of the progress made so far.

The Annual Report can be downloaded from weee-forum.org.

Quelle: WEEE Forum

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