2022.03.30
How is your municipality doing?
Every year, El-Kretsen collects statistics on collected electrical waste and batteries per municipality. Now the 2021 statistics have been compiled and the total collection includes 138,749 tons. This corresponds to approximately 13 kilograms per person.
The total distribution of the six categories that are distinguished is as follows:
Miscellaneous electronics: 68,208,434 kg, 6.53 kg/inhabitant
Refrigerators and freezers: 28,474,034 kg, 2.72 kg/capita
White goods: 35,051,599 kg, 3.35 kg/inhabitant
Batteries: 3,547,797 kg, 0.34 kg/capita
Low-energy light bulbs and fluorescent tubes: 1,716,151 kg, 0.16 kg/inhabitant
LED and incandescent bulbs: 537,309 kg, 0.05 kg/inhabitant
Do you want to find statistics for your home municipality? Click here!
About the Electrical Circuit
El-Kretsen is a non-profit company created by trade associations for electronics and battery producers in Sweden with the mission of supporting companies to fulfill their producer responsibility. They do this by offering a nationwide collection system for electronic products. In addition to collection, El-Kretsen provides knowledge about the collection and management of electrical waste and batteries from a historical perspective, current situation and trends.
The statistics only include batteries and electrical/electronic products that have been submitted to the collection system operated by El-Kretsen together with the municipalities. Any secondary collections by individual municipalities are not included.
