Belgium

Report/StudySummaryDocuments including WEEE flows/quantities
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.
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(W)EEE Mass balance and market structure in BelgiumUnited Nations University, Institute for Sustainability and Peace, 2013: The report addresses a major challenge of fulfilling the EU’s Directive: There is no established method for calculating the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) put on the market or the amount of WEEE generated and the flows of e-waste that result. The report is based on a decade’s-worth of information gathered by Recupel (a Belgian WEEE take-back and recycling organization) to explore how much of EEE exists in Belgium, where it comes from and where it goes.48