UK: quarterly IT & telcomms e-waste collection 2023

The volume of IT and telecomms equipment collected in the United Kingdom as part of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive totaled 10,371 metric tons in the third quarter of 2023. Despite having been on a downward trend since peaking at 14,431 metric tons in the second quarter of 2016, the amount of IT and telecomms equipment collected in 2023 saw the highest figure recorded since the third quarter of 2019.

Household IT and telcomms equipment collected as WEEE in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2013 to 3rd quarter 2023 (in metric tons)

Characteristic	Waste collected in metric tons
Q3 '23	10,371
Q2 '23	10,300
Q1 '23	9,705
Q4 '22	8,396
Q3 '22	9,625
Q2 '22	9,770
Q1 '22	9,328
Q4 '21	8,510
Q3 '21	9,846
Q2 '21	10,052
Q1 '21	8,272
Q4 '20	9,060
Q3 '20	9,401
Q2 '20	3,943
Q1 '20	9,570
Q4 '19	10,054
Q3 '19	12,035
Q2 '19	11,744
Q1 '19	10,965
Q4 '18	10,165
Q3 '18	11,478
Q2 '18	12,352
Q1 '18	11,018
Q4 '17	10,636
Q3 '17	12,883
Q2 '17	12,754
Q1 '17	12,290
Q4 '16	11,749
Q3 '16	12,737
Q2 '16	14,431
Q1 '16	13,091
Q4 '15	11,425
Q3 '15	12,560
Q2 '15	12,594
Q1 '15	10,689
Q4 '14	9,240
Q3 '14	9,154
Q2 '14	9,371
Q1 '14	8,224
Q4 '13	7,367
Q3 '13	8,742
Q2 '13	9,249
Q1 '13	7,411

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Release date

December 2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 2013 to Q3 2023

Supplementary notes

WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment.
Figures include waste collected by Producer Compliance Schemes and their members.
Values have been rounded.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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