e-Waste

e-Waste International Day

In 2022 alone we generated 62 billion kilograms of e-waste. 

International e-Waste Day takes place on 14 October every year. It was introduced in 2018 by the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Forum to raise awareness of the need for e-waste recycling. Computers and accessories, circuit boards, flashlights, microwaves, phones, stereos, DVD players and televisions all come under the spectrum of e-waste.

This Year’s Theme: Retrieve, Recycle, and Revive is about hunting down forgotten electronics. Examples of forgotten e-waste include: adapters for ancient phone chargers, cables, extension cords, dead load-shedding lamps, USB drives and many other items. You can send these and all e-waste to a recycler or take them to an e-waste buy-back centre. 

You can also join in the spirit of e-Waste Day by donating used appliances, computers, and tablets to people and organisations who may need them. If they’re not in working condition, they may be refurbished to give them a second life.