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Report/Study	Summary
Holes in the Circular Economy: WEEE Leakage from Europe.A Report of the e-Trash Transparency Project	Basel Action Network, 2018: The report reveals the findings of a two-year study in 10 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK ) that followed 314 old computers, printers, and monitors in which GPS Trackers had been secretly installed to determine the rate and flows of "leakage" from the EU of consumer-generated WEEE. 19 (6%) of the tracked scrap equipment was exported to the countries of Ghana, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Ukraine, outside of the EU; the flows discovered, if extrapolated, would total 352,474 metric tonnes per annum, moving from the EU to developing countries. Author(s): Jim Puckett; Chris Brandt; and Hayley Palmer.
Manual on Export/transboundary shipment of “used goods”	Lebensministerium, Austria, 2014: The classification as waste or nonwaste depends essentially on the EU legislation on waste, implemented in the Austrian Federal Waste Management Act (“Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz 2002”). This manual provides information – based on current legislation - on the distinction between waste and non-waste and offers guidance on how to comply with the relevant environmental legislation or respectively the WEEEOrdinance with regard to transboundary shipments of used electric and electronic equipment (EEE).

Report/Study

Summary

Holes in the Circular Economy: WEEE Leakage from Europe.A Report of the e-Trash Transparency Project

Basel Action Network, 2018: The report reveals the findings of a two-year study in 10 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK ) that followed 314 old computers, printers, and monitors in which GPS Trackers had been secretly installed to determine the rate and flows of "leakage" from the EU of consumer-generated WEEE. 19 (6%) of the tracked scrap equipment was exported to the countries of Ghana, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Ukraine, outside of the EU; the flows discovered, if extrapolated, would total 352,474 metric tonnes per annum, moving from the EU to developing countries.
Author(s): Jim Puckett; Chris Brandt; and Hayley Palmer.

Manual on
Export/transboundary shipment of “used goods”

Lebensministerium, Austria, 2014: The classification as waste or nonwaste depends essentially on the EU legislation on waste, implemented in the Austrian Federal Waste Management Act (“Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz 2002”). This manual provides information – based on current legislation - on the distinction between waste and non-waste and offers guidance on how to comply with the relevant environmental legislation or respectively the WEEEOrdinance with regard to transboundary shipments of used electric and electronic equipment (EEE).