Development of e-waste Recycling

In 1994, SWICO introduced a recycling scheme for IT and office electronics. At that time, almost all WEEE was returned to manufacturers. Since then, roughly 5000t e-waste has been returned to manufacturers annually. But the key question was how to encourage private households to return WEEE properly. With the implementation of collection points for all e-waste and with the possibility to return WEEE to all retailes, this question was answered. From this point onwards, the amount of WEEE returned has increased every year. Additionally, in 2003 the possibilty for companies to return WEEE directly to recycling companies was established. In 2006, over 46000t of WEEE was returned properly by users.