Takeback and Recycle

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Takeback and Recycle in-brief - EU and Emerging markets (3 minutes)
A brief over view of what WEEE is, how it applies to the territory and the environmental program Cisco offers to ensure end-of-useful-life product does not end up in landfill.

Takeback and Recycle Program - Endorsed and explained

Statistics for WEEE

European WEEE

European discards 6.5 million tonnes of household WEEE every year - the equivalent in weight to 590 times the weight of steel in Tower Bridge, London.
Attributed to www.WEEE.org.uk

Europe is responsible for about one quarter of the world's e-waste tonnage, but only recycled 2.2 of 8.3 million tonnes of e-waste in 2005 (26.5% total but 25% for big appliances and 40% for smaller electronics), at a cost of 0.76 billion euros or $1.11 billion US.
Environstats Nov 2007.

75% of European EEE goes missing every year (only 25% can be traced in the return waste stream), this is the equivalent of a daily container-train of 15-17Km long of electronic waste that is disappearing.
Mr Klaus Hieronymi from HP.
7th International Electronics Recycling Congress Salzburg (IERC2008).

In total, 17,000 producers of electronics5 are affiliated to the 42 collection and recovery systems that make up the WEEE Forum. In 2007, those affiliated to 28 WEEE Forum member systems taken together put almost 4m tons onto the European market - or, more specifically, onto the markets in which they operate. This corresponds to 11.1 kg per inhabitant per year. The maximum was a market input of 30.5 kg per inhabitant per year.
WEEE Forum - Key Figures 2007.

The quantities of electronics put on the market increased from 2.9m (21 systems) to 3.9m tons (28 systems), i.e. from 10.1 to 11.1 kg per inhabitant per year.
WEEE Forum - Key Figures 2007.

Taken together, 31 member systems collected almost 1.18m tons of e-waste, thereby serving 264 million inhabitants. This corresponds to a weighted average amount of 4.4 kg per inhabitant per year. The arithmetic mean average of WEEE collection was 4.0 kg per inhabitant per year. One system managed to collect 17.5 kg per inhabitant per year.
WEEE Forum - Key Figures 2007.

UK WEEE

The UK discards 1 million tonnes of household WEEE every year - the equivalent in weight to 81 HMS Belfast's.
Attributed to www.WEEE.org.uk

Global

Globally, IT contributes 2% of total greenhouse gas emission; as much as all of the airlines combined.
Gartner January 2008.

US E-Waste

It is estimated that about 220 million tons of old computers and other tech hardware are trashed in the U.S. every year.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).