Europe
Put on the market
The United Nations University (UNU)153 published a report in
2007, which states that in the EU27, 9.3 million tonnes of
electrical and electronic products were put on the market in
2005, based on scaled up data from nine national registries.
This is significantly higher than the estimates made in the 1990s
of about 7 million tonnes.
Markets for electrical and electronic products within the European
Union are diverse. The markets in the “new” Member States are
not yet as saturated as the “old” Member States and sales figures
per inhabitant as well as use patterns for electronics differ widely.
These differences can influence the amount of WEEE occurring in
each Member State and have to be kept in mind when considering
the following figures.
The following table summarises sales data for different types of
appliances and the future quantities of appliances that will be in use
(stock) in EU25154.