Erion WEEE

“We want EEE Producers to choose Erion WEEE to manage the end of life of their products. We constantly strive to offer services that best meet our Members’ needs and add value to their choice to stay with us.”
Giorgio Arienti, General Manager of Erion WEEE

Erion WEEE is the Collective scheme dedicated to the management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in accordance with the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements described in Legislative Decree 49/2014 implementing European Directive 2012/19/EU.

 

 

As at 31 December 2022, the Collective Scheme can count on 2,148 Members, and holds by far the leading WEEE management market share nationwide amounting to 68%.

During 2022, Erion WEEE handled 246,246 tonnes of Household WEEE of which approximately 89% of the total was sent for recycling, enabling the recovery of valuable secondary raw materials. The Consortium’s efforts also prevented the emission of 1.8 million tons of CO2 and saved 380 million kWh.

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Initiatives and projects

In 2022 Erion WEEE promoted a series of initiatives to improve the supply chain and raise citizens’ awareness of the virtuous behaviors to adopt with WEEE.

On 12 April 2022, Erion WEEE presented in Rome the ‘Libro Bianco sui RAEE’, containing 32 proposals of an organizational and regulatory nature that came about as a result of the constant dialogue among all the actors in the WEEE system: producers, distributors, urban hygiene companies, and treatment plants. The White Paper is mainly addressed to institutions with the aim of overcoming, through concrete actions, the main obstacles holding back the full development of the Italian WEEE system.

“DireFareRAEE” is the maxi-communication program launched by Erion WEEE in 2022, and which will continue until 2024, to raise awareness among Italian citizens on the issues of proper WEEE disposal and recycling. An investment of more than four million Euro that the Collective Scheme’s Producers deemed necessary to bridge the information gap that especially affects younger people. In 2022 alone, ‘DireFareRAEE’ has given rise to five initiatives with a single goal: reach the streets, homes, and schools through dissemination and educational activities to communicate to all consumers, from the youngest to the not so young, good practices for the proper disposal of WEEE.

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