Collectively, EU Member States collect and recover more discarded electrical and electronic equipment than most countries, but the EU is at risk of failing to meet its most ambitious electronic waste collection targets, warns the European Court of Auditors in an analysis paper (No. 04/2021) published on Thursday 20 May.
This paper examines the action taken by the EU and the challenges it has faced since the adoption of its Directive on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE),...