Quarterly household IT and telcomms equipment e-waste collected in the UK 2013-2023
The volume of IT and telecomms equipment collected in the United Kingdom as part of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive totaled 10,371 metric tons in the third quarter of 2023. Despite having been on a downward trend since peaking at 14,431 metric tons in the second quarter of 2016, the amount of IT and telecomms equipment collected in 2023 saw the highest figure recorded since the third quarter of 2019.