E-Waste in Estonia

Below there are some tables that show the amount of e-waste that is collected and that is treated in Estonia.

From	2006	2007	2008
Large households appliances	3.446	3.382	2.951
Small households appliances	69	92	207
IT and Telecommunications equipment	687	871	971
Consumer equipment	1.606	1.644	1.677
Lighting equipment	1	1	1
Gas discharge lamps	39	143	85
Electrical and electronic tools	7	66	101
Toys, leisure and sports equipment	1	0*	11
Medical devices	0*	0*	42
Monitoring and control instruments	0*	0*	7
Automatic dispensers	0*	0*	111
Total	5.856	6.199	6.164

For the table below the percentages are based on the numbers from the table “e-waste that is collected”. We consider those numbers as 100% because you cannot threat/reuse/recycle e-waste that is not collected.

From	2006	2007	2008
Large households appliances	641   = 18,6%	455   = 13,5%	1.428    = 48,4%
Small households appliances	11   = 15,9%	58   = 63,0%	131    = 63,3%
IT and Telecommunications equipment	205   = 29,8%	705   = 80,9%	598    = 61,6%
Consumer equipment	216   = 13,4%	1.245   = 75,7%	1.092    = 65,1%
Lighting equipment	1   =  100%	1   =  100%	1    =  100%
Gas discharge lamps	0* =      0%	0* =      0%	0* =       0%
Electrical and electronic tools	7   = 100%	48   = 72,7%	69    = 68,3%
Toys, leisure and sports equipment	1   = 100%	0* =  100%	7    = 63,6%
Medical devices	0* = 100%	0* =  100%	0* =       0%
Monitoring and control instruments	0* = 100%	0* =  100%	5    = 71,4%
Automatic dispensers	0* = 100%	0* =  100%	0* =       0%
Total	1.082 = 18,5%	2.512 = 40,5%	3.331 = 54,0%

It is clear to see that a large part of E-waste were treated in an another country or not treated. The Estonian E-waste market is not totally saturated.