Saudi Arabia generates one of the highest amounts of electronic waste in the Arab States region, with more than 17 kg of e-waste per person each year, compared to the regional average of 6.6 kg. Addressing this challenge requires coordinated action, strong regulatory frameworks, and capacity development across all actors in the value chain. To … Read more
In April 2025, the UNITAR SCYCLE team was in Nairobi, Kenya, delivering a training on electronic waste (e-waste) statistics, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The training was part of the 2025 International Workshop Series on E-waste Statistics, delivered under the UNEP project Enhancing Countries’ Capacities for … Read more
The National E-waste Monitor 2025 – Norway provides a detailed assessment of the current situation of e-waste statistics and legislation, and an outlook on e-waste statistics up to 2050. Norway is the world’s leading nation in Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) generation per capita, producing 27.5 kg per person in 2022, equivalent to 149 … Read more
After having run twenty pilots across Europe in the past two years, the ECOSWEEE project, co-funded by the EU, has presented vital insights for enhancing the collection of small end-of-use electricals and batteries. ECOSWEEE emphasises the importance of engaging retailers as key facilitators, and prioritising user convenience to create sustainable, scalable collection models. A combination of … Read more
The ReduCE-waste project (funded by the PREVENT Waste Alliance, an initiative of the German Federal Government) supported the Tanzanian government in setting up mechanisms to reduce and control the import of e-waste. It analysed transboundary e-waste and Used Electrical and Electronic Equipment (UEEE). flows, contributed to develop and pilot a national strategy to implement and … Read more
SCYCLE’s mission is to become the one-stop-shop for e-waste related training and research information. Therefore, we have gathered first time all our training related materials in one place – our new website www.ewasteacademy.org, complementing www.scycle.info, www.ewastemonitor.info and www.globalewaste.org. We are especially grateful to the Webdeveloper for his dedication in satisfactory completing this project. And we … Read more
The coverage of our Global E-waste Monitor 2024 is still continuing. The mainstream media coverage summary spreadsheet now includes 2,091 articles captured from 1,663 different news sites in 41 languages across 93 countries. The total potential impressions (online news sites only) is now at 6.8 billion persons… See: GEM 2024 – Media coverage summary – Google Tabellen
Austrian national radio covered the Global E-waste Monitor in its famous programme “punkteins” with SCYCLE’s Head Prof. Ruediger Kuehr as guest. Die Welt versinkt im Elektroschrott | DI | 09 04 2024 | 13:00 – oe1.ORF.at
Dr. Kees Baldé, SCYCLE’s Senior Scientific Expert and lead-author of the Global E-waste Monitor 2024 was interviewed by the CNN Newsroom on the outcomes of latest e-waste statistics work. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mGVwX_yDqU04RwBJlIffH9xtqBRA7cWC/view?usp=sharing If you click this Link, you will redirected to an external Website.
The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) Global Training Academy and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) Programme conducted a joint webinar to increase knowledge and awareness amongst prosecutors of waste crime, its links with other forms of organised criminal activity, the challenges associated with prosecuting such crimes, and also … Read more