A survey of 5,000 UK householders suggests thousands of tonnes of repairable appliances go to landfill each year as people don’t know what to do with them when they break.

New figures from the Royal Society of Chemistry reveal that more than half of UK households have at least one unused electrical device, with 82 per cent having no plans to recycle or sell on their devices.

A new EU regulation requires that online retailers take responsibility for compliance documentation on electrical items if there is no appointed manufacturers’ representative.

Birmingham University has launched a pilot to recover rare earth metals from gadgets, with the help of EU Horizon 2020 funding.

Lighting compliance scheme Recolight has called for changes in e-waste regulations.

The Nigerian Government is hoping to kick off a circular economy for electronic products with support from the Global Environmental Facility and UN Environment.

Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched an inquiry into the environmental and human health impacts of electronic waste (e-waste) and the opportunities for the circular economy for electronic goods.

Waste management company Biffa has been convicted of breaching waste export regulations for attempting to send heavily contaminated waste to China.

Teresa Arbuckle, Chair of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA), weighs up how reuse and recycling of WEEE affects collection targets

The French Government is set to ban the destruction of unsold non-food goods as part of new legislation on the circular economy, though concerns have been raised that it does not go far enough.