Electrical and electronic waste

In 2024, only 0.53 % of electrical and electronic devices delivered to the domestic market ended up being prepared for reuse. In the previous year, the share was 0.46 %.
 
A total of 843 tons of electronic and electronical equipment ended up being prepared for reuse, which was more than 100 tons more than in the previous year.

The majority of these, 297 tons, were display terminals over 100 cm. Their amount dropped significantly from the previous year. Second most there were small information and telecommunication equipment, where the preparation for reuse more than doubled from the previous year. Also the preparation for reuse of all other product groups increased from the previous year.

Preparation for re-use refers to checking, cleaning or repairing the waste, which prepares the discarded product or its part for re-use.
 
Statistical data concerning electronic and electronical equipment are based on data reported in the producer responsibility system.

In 2024, a total of 69,000 tons of electrical and electronic waste was utilized either as material or as energy. This corresponded to 44 percent of all devices delivered to the domestic marke, which was the same as in the previous year. The majority, 91 percent, was utilized as material.
 
Large devices over 50 cm in size, heating and cooling devices, heating and cooling devices and small devices under 50 cm were utilized the most.
 
WEEE scrap has a lot of utilization potential. In addition to conventional waste materials, the waste stream contains strategic and critical raw materials as well as valuable materials.
 
Energy recovery is a suitable processing method for some of WEEE's plastic materials due to the harmful substances they contain.
 
Different categories of equipment have their own recovery, recycling and reuse goals, which producers must take care of achieving:
- Heating and cooling equipment and other large equipment: recovery target 85% and reuse and recycling target 80%.
- Screens: recovery target is 80% and reuse and recycling target is 70%.
- Small equipment and small telecommunication equipment: recovery target 75% and reuse and recycling target 55%
- Lamps: recycling target 80%
 
According to information from the Finnish Supervisory Agency, the preparaton for reuse, recycling and recovery goals of the collected electrical and electronic waste were achieved in 2024, except for lamps.