Source: Global E-waste Monitor 2024 (country table for 2022 data), UNITAR/ITU:
https://ewastemonitor.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GEM_2024_EN_11_NOV-web.pdf
Tools used: Kasipa (https://kasipa.com/graph/h7DzAzNJ)
Posted by dcastm
![[OC] E-waste generated per person in Europe (2022)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/phenzvtt0qjg1-1536x1032.png "[OC] E-waste generated per person in Europe (2022)")
Source: Global E-waste Monitor 2024 (country table for 2022 data), UNITAR/ITU:
https://ewastemonitor.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GEM_2024_EN_11_NOV-web.pdf
Tools used: Kasipa (https://kasipa.com/graph/h7DzAzNJ)
Posted by dcastm
4 Comments
Why include Norway but exclude the UK and ~~Switzerland~~ Czech Republic
You would think that places with younger populations generate more e-waste, but it seems to mostly track prosperity and consumerism.
I wonder to what degree recycling and waste separation factor into it. Germany is obsessed with separating trash into dozen different categories to dispose separately, while Austria, which in most other aspects is culturally similar, very much isn’t, yet the two generate similar levels of e-waste.
It’s not Europe though is it given there’s European countries missing…
This can not be counting Ukraines drones.