Every electric or electronic product and battery not collected represents a missed opportunity.
Projects
SCYCLE work falls under the following project areas:
- Quantification
- Waste Management Systems
- Partnership Initiatives
- Training & Education
Running projects
Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Western Balkans
E-waste offers great opportunities for sustainable development but also constitutes one of the fastest growing
Unwaste project
THE PROBLEM
Illegal trade in waste (or waste trafficking) is a type crime that affects the environment and is a growing problem across the world.
uPOPCI
The project “Sound management of unintentional persistent organic pollutants (u-POPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
Launch of project to optimise raw material reuse and recovery in electronic products
Brussels, 1 March 2023 A consortium composed of leading experts representing the entire value chain of electronic products as well as IT experts,
FutuRaM (Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials)
FutuRaM (Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials) is an Horizon Europe funded project
Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP)
- Improving and collecting worldwide e-waste statistics – Read more
Update and Maintenance of WEEE-Tools
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) – the Sustainable Cycles Programme (SCYCLE),
Official start of the STrIKE project!
Stronger Training and Increased Knowledge for Better Enforcement (STrIKE) – Waste & Mercury
Others: https://unu.edu/projects/
Closed projects (selection)
Step – Solving the e-waste problem Initiative
- StEP – an independent, multi-stakeholder platform for designing strategies that address all dimensions of electronics in an increasingly digitized world.
E-waste Quantification
- ORAMA – Optimising quality of information in Raw Materials data collection across Europe –
Read more…
Development of National E-waste Management Systems
(Otmar Deubzer, Elisabeth Herbeck, Ruediger Kuehr)
- GIZ Expert Pool
- PiP = Person-in-the-Port Project
Studies for the European Commission:
- “Study on WEEE recovery targets, preparation for re-use targets and on the method for calculation of the recovery targets” (2015) – Read more (pdf)…
- “Study on collection rates of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)” (2014) – Read more (pdf)…
- “Study on “2008 Review of Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)” (2007) – Read more (pdf)…
