With #eWaste generation projected to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030, we must ramp up efforts to recycle and reuse electronic devices. Let's work together to close the gap between e-waste production and recycling rates for a cleaner, greener future

🏢⚡ Small changes at work can make a big difference! UNITAR has been integrating practical habits to reduce energy use, cut resource consumption, and lower its environmental impact. 💡 Practical tips to adopt at the office compiled in a handy PDF:

🎄💡♻️ The holiday season is over. Decorations come down, boxes go back into storage, and broken or unwanted electronics often end up in the clear-out pile. 👇 Swipe through to see what happens to Christmas e-waste and how to handle it responsibly.

🔸 The trade-off: While safety is improved, an important low-threshold collection option is lost. It remains to be seen if and how this will affect official collection rates. 👉 Stay tuned for the next Global E-waste Monitor in 2027!

As of 1 Jan 2026, Germany has removed public collection containers for small e-waste. 🔸 Why? Fire risks caused by improperly disposed batteries. 🔸 What’s changed? Small e-waste can now only be returned to retailers or recycling centres.

✨ Happy Holidays from the @scycleunitar team! Thank you to our partners and supporters for the trust and collaboration throughout 2025. This year brought steady progress across our work on PCBs, batteries, and plastics. Here’s to continuing the work together in the new year 🤝

SCYCLE and Thailand’s National Statistical Office held a capacity-building workshop on #ewaste statistics in Bangkok. Next steps include support for international reporting and Thailand’s National E-waste Monitor. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/8gKcbTGi2S

Three days of @FuturamProject meeting in Bonn last week: flow-chart refinements, task alignment across 43 partners, and a full programme on 2RM impacts, future trends, extended compositions, EU statistics, and case-study updates. The latest results ➡️ https://t.co/TOefIB5QfQ

🚀 The Urban Mine Platform is live! Unveiled at Raw Materials Week, it brings unified data on 7 waste streams – from #batteries to #WEEE – plus projections to 2050 to guide smarter resource use. ➡️ Explore the platform: https://t.co/nWUevg0ykM #CRMs #SRMs #UNFC

These efforts build on SCYCLE’s work on the Global E-waste Monitor, helping countries track progress, reduce environmental footprints, and design evidence-based sustainability strategies. ➡️ Learn more:

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the Green Digital Action Hub was launched – a new global platform to connect digital innovation with climate and sustainability goals. ♻️ As part of the @UNITAR, we contribute our expertise in e-waste data, indicators, and digital monitoring tools ⬇️

☀️♻️ Rethinking solar waste: At the @EVERPV2024 workshop “Towards a Circular Photovoltaic Industry”, we discussed the ways to turn end-of-life materials into #resources and test their reuse in new PV modules, making #PVRecycling efficient, sustainable, and practical

♻️🇹🇭 Last week in Thailand, we ran a hands-on workshop on SCYCLE’s calculation tools to boost national #eWasteData and support country's transition towards the #CircularEconomy.

🎵 Ave Circularia is our creative nod to the partnerships and progress built through our work on e-waste with colleagues - proving circularity hits the right note. 🎤 Singer: Dmitry Yumashev 🎹 Piano: Cornelis Baldé ➡️ Discover what inspired this duet: https://t.co/7FaXBfNp6c

🎉🌍 Today we celebrate 5 years of the opening of the @UNITAR Bonn Office! Inaugurated during the COVID-19 crisis with leaders from UNITAR, Ecuador, UN entities in Bonn, the German Government, the City of Bonn, academia & industry. ➡️

🔧 It’s #InternationalRepairDay Repairing keeps materials in use and waste out of the environment. Through the Partnership for Action on E-waste, we support refurbishment & repair of used electronics. ♻️🔗 Learn about our work and training initiatives:  https://t.co/Ln7MxiegQf

#DYK that 🔴 Higher consumption rates of EEE 🔴 Short lifecycles 🔴 Few repairs options Contribute to the #ewaste generation worldwide 📱📺🌍.  Learn more! 👉 https://t.co/vEH8eJLRT2 @scycleunitar @UNITAR  @ForumWeee

Inside that waste: 1 million tonnes of critical raw materials like copper, aluminium, palladium & tungsten. Yet nearly half of Europe’s e-waste still goes untracked or untreated – a massive untapped resource for the #CircularEconomy. 🔗 Full report:

♻️ #EWasteDay2025 – What Europe’s e-waste really holds Following the International E-waste Day, we’re diving into new data from the Critical Raw Materials Outlook. In 2022, Europe generated 10.7 million tonnes of e-waste – about 20 kg per person.

Our super #intriguing and #free #webinar on #criticalrawmaterials is #happening today! #Hurry & #register here now: https://t.co/ttu1MDiDsD #ewasteday #AbtohKaroSambhav #TwitteRx #X #Tuesday #Trending @RSPCB_official @scycleunitar @UNITAR @jayesh_ranjan @CSIR_NML @CSIR_IND

👏 A big thank you to all experts: G. Iattoni, S. Bottausci, T. Yamamoto, M. Schubert, V. Forti, R. Kuehr, C.P. Baldé (@scycleunitar) K. Kippert, R. Hu, V.S. Rotter (@TUBerlin) M. Charytanowicz (@ForumWeee) A. Bizouard (Ecosystem) A. Perello-Y-Bestard (@LeidenU)