Community

We are a community of refurbishers, reuse advocates, social inclusion organizations, recycling companies, public administration, university service-learning programs, charity donation programs, and IT companies.

Refurbishers, like Solidança, use the software to prepare and manage devices to be traded or donated, ensuring giver's donation policy, and final disposal.

Each year 500 students from the Catalan Polytechnic University cooperate in repairing and installing free software to computers that are donated to NGOs.

The Barcelona government donates PC to schools and NGOs. The eReuse.org base licenses ensure their correct treatment and facilitate the NGOs and refurbishers to work with them.

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Our main objectives

Share stories to communicate the social value of reuse and recycling.

Reduce the cost of refurbishing and reusing by developing open-data and open-source tools and services.

Develop open data of electronic components to compute circularity metrics, like the extended durability of devices.

Prevent illegal export of WEEE by promoting reuse quality standards.

Develop open data about reusing and recycling traceability to build confidence in donors and governments.

Promote electronic refurbishing and reusing by exchanging and creating new business models around circular economy.

Ensure reusing and recycling by providing traceability at component level.

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Collaborate and join

We welcome any initiative focused on refurbishing, reusing, and promoting Zero Waste on electronic equipment in general.

Reporting data

Open information is freedom. Report non-personal device metadata to evaluate product circularity, social impact, and appropriate recycling.

Enhance the resources

Share your skills and pick up a few new ones along the way by writing open-source code, testing, providing support, translating, among others.

Promote a local circuit

Circuits are communities that exchange devices. Empower them or create new ones using our know-how and tools.

News

Improving the rate of return of used and waste mobile phones, tablets and laptops

Posted on 15 October 202315 October 2023 by news

We saw the publication on Friday Oct 6 2023 of this EC recommendation (non-binding) about the need to improve the rate of return of used and waste small digital devices. Interesting but practical?

That message: Dear member states, it is clear we have a problem, and there are many ways, so please do something about it, looks futile. Reuse and recycling critically depend on take-back. We need binding and effective measures.

The EC attitude of taking a look and just sending a reminder is welcome but a pity and irritating when there are binding ways. We appreciate the recommendation by Commissioner V. Sinkevičius, but as As V. Ferrer said, “Misery and suffering are not meant to be understood, but to be solved”. While politics moves slowly and carefully, climate change and environmental degradation is accelerating. Let’s solve this ASAP by moving forward to the next logical step:

We need EU-wide binding e-device return objectives and effective measures to do so, as mentioned in the recommendation.

The eReuse.org team.

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Reuse electronics ensuring final recycling

Our mission is the transition to a collaborative and circular consumption of electronics

We bootstrap local and autonomous platforms for reusing electronics

Open-Source software

Global traceability

Research & analytics

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Reuse fosters circular economy, boosts digital inclusion, and reduces e-waste