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<p>The Government has not made an estimate of the volume of consumer electronics that
end up in landfill. The 2013 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations
seek to reduce the amount of WEEE going to landfill by encouraging its separate collection
and subsequent treatment, reuse, recovery, recycling and environmentally sound disposal.</p><p>
</p><p>Reports on the amount of WEEE (both household and non-household) collected
in the UK under the WEEE Regulations is published by the Environment Agency here:
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee-in-the-uk"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee-in-the-uk</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>Last year, producers financed the collection of 493,323 tonnes of household
WEEE.</p><p>Additionally, based on a study carried out by the Waste and Resources
Action Programme, we estimate that between 250k and 273k tonnes of large domestic
appliances (cookers, washing machines etc.) are collected with scrap metal and recycled
outside the WEEE system every year.</p>
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