UK: quarterly cooling appliance e-waste collection 2023

The quarterly volume of household cooling appliances in the United Kingdom collected as part of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive surpassed 37,000 metric tons in the third quarter of 2023. Collection volumes have typically been highest in the third quarter of each year, having reached a record high in the third quarter of 2020, at nearly 40,000 metric tons.

Household cooling appliances containing refrigerants 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	37,012
Q2 '23	33,463
Q1 '23	31,992
Q4 '22	32,435
Q3 '22	36,963
Q2 '22	33,000
Q1 '22	31,875
Q4 '21	33,642
Q3 '21	39,212
Q2 '21	35,910
Q1 '21	33,184
Q4 '20	34,968
Q3 '20	39,866
Q2 '20	18,692
Q1 '20	31,480
Q4 '19	32,124
Q3 '19	38,490
Q2 '19	32,489
Q1 '19	31,527
Q4 '18	31,108
Q3 '18	36,923
Q2 '18	34,363
Q1 '18	29,545
Q4 '17	31,928
Q3 '17	37,981
Q2 '17	33,295
Q1 '17	32,477
Q4 '16	32,073
Q3 '16	36,975
Q2 '16	33,793
Q1 '16	31,824
Q4 '15	29,211
Q3 '15	33,596
Q2 '15	29,946
Q1 '15	28,897
Q4 '14	29,179
Q3 '14	32,157
Q2 '14	27,773
Q1 '14	24,986
Q4 '13	26,981
Q3 '13	29,977
Q2 '13	22,809
Q1 '13	20,998

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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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