Green economy

Circular economy, increasing collection of electrical waste

In the first nine months of the year it grew by 2.4% or 6,334 tonnes more waste than in the same period of 2024

by Davide Madeddu

30 October 2025

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Key points

Numbers
The territory
The Raee announcement

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The trend is positive: in the first nine months of this year the collection of electrical and electronic waste increased compared to the same period last year by 2.4% and 6,334 tonnes more waste was collected, contributing to the total of 270,684 tonnes.

Certifying the figure is the Centro coordinamento Raee, a consortium of private nature participated by 14 Collective Systems of electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers and a reference point for the entire sector.

The numbers

The greatest growth, as the report shows, concerns "grouping 4 - IT, consumer electronics and Ped with +5.8%". Positive trend with more than 3,533 tonnes more than in the first nine months of 2024. The collection of other waste, the so-called R1 and R2 "temperature exchange equipment with fluids, also grew, with +3.7% and +3.3% respectively, amounting to 3,353 tonnes more for grouping 2 and 2,607 more for grouping 1". Light sources (waste R5) recorded a negative figure with -3.3% and TVs and monitors (waste R3) with -9.7%.

The Territory

The number of outlets in Italy is also growing: there are 15,799 registrations on the WEEE Coordination Centre portal.

Looking at the territories, we go from 33 registered points of sale in Valle d'Aosta to 2,892 in Lombardy. 'Nationally, there are 27 registered points of sale per 100,000 inhabitants, with the highest values in Liguria and Molise, respectively 40 and 39 points of sale per 100,000 inhabitants, and the lowest value in Campania, with 12 points per 100,000 inhabitants.

Then there are the other territorial aspects. Over the last year, following the launch of a series of controls, 'there has been a peak in registrations by companies in Campania that have regularised their position: in August and September alone there were more than 30 new registrations, compared to just one in the whole of 2024 and five in 2023. The new registrations are concentrated in particular in the provinces of Naples and Caserta'. The growth in registrations has also been seen in other regions. In Piedmont, 15 new plants were registered, '10 more than in 2024', while there were 10 in Marche, '5 more than the previous year'.

The Raee Notice

In addition, in recent days, the WEEE Coordination Centre published the rankings of the beneficiaries of the WEEE 2025 call for proposals aimed at the infrastructure, development and adaptation of collection centres, the implementation of micro-collection projects and contextual local communication. The total budget of the call is more than 4.5 million euros, more than 40% more than the total amount of last year. This increase allowed 102 projects to enter the rankings, 25 more than in 2024, out of a total of 212 applications received.