Annual report 2018
The richness of e-waste
2018 was a successful year for Recupel. Discover it in our annual report. Thanks to our efforts, more than 117,000 tonnes of electrical and electronic goods were processed properly and safely, or 10.3 kilos per inhabitant. These figures put us among the best in the world when it comes to collecting and recycling e-waste.
We consider ‘e-waste’ as our shared asset for the future. Valuable components are reused and put back into the economy. The result? Less mining to extract raw materials from the earth. The increasing raw material scarcity from classical mining is so significant that urban mining, where raw materials from the city are recovered, is no longer optional. It has become a necessity.
Instead of using raw materials once, we need to be using the same raw materials again and again.
Urban mining turns the city into a mine full of old electrical appliances that are lying around unused, despite the enormous wealth they contain. In Belgium, there are about 50 million of them. Although our collection results are among the best in the world, we keep investing to tackle this mountain of e-waste.
Discover in our annual report what we did in 2018 and what we are planning in 2019 so that the circular economy can become a reality sooner.
