Communication & education

Much more e-waste needs to be collected in the coming years. We ensure in many ways that consumers know where they can hand in e-waste and the importance of doing so. With our Wecycle campaigns, for example. And with educational and communicative concepts for schools.

Education is an important activity of the OPEN Foundation. Consumers see our communications under the name Wecycle. We know from research that every person in the Netherlands has seen or heard of an advertisement for a Wecycle e-waste collection point at least 15 times on average. We achieve this in different ways.

Strengthening the recycle self-confidence

Every year, a lot of education happens to increase knowledge and lower hand-in thresholds. This includes mass media campaigns, social media and online campaigns, education, but also vloggers and incentives with a hand-in message. A significant group of Dutch people indicate that they now throw e-waste away less often than a few years ago (44%) and hand it in more often for recycling (44%). We know this from research that we conduct annually. By measuring this, we know where we can, must or continue to invest in knowledge, attitude and behavioral aspects related to the return of e-waste.

Drop-off points

On wecycle.nl consumers will find information, such as one of our 13,000 Wecycle drop-off points such as recycling centers, stores, petting zoos and more. See the ‘WecycleFinder drop-off points’-button on this site.

National Recycle Week

The International E-waste Day is on October 14. Since 2019, therefore, the National Recycle Week has been held in the Netherlands in the second week of October. The OPEN Foundation (and LightRec Foundation) support this week with various consumer campaigns and collection actions. We cordially invite our partners to also organize activities during this week to stimulate the collection of e-waste. You can make use of a communication kit of the OPEN Foundation, full of materials.

Easy handing in

With the Jekko, the practical home collection box, consumers can store used electrical appliances (as well as batteries and light bulbs) neatly in a central location and then hand them in.

Learned young…

The OPEN Foundation, with educational Wecycle projects, wants to teach children that e-waste does not belong in the trash, but should be handed in for recycling. This means that fewer raw materials are needed from nature. Education about this is therefore of great importance to us. Hundreds of schools and day care centers receive fun and informative teaching materials every year. Schools can find more information at www.wecycle.nl. In addition, the E-waste Race takes place at dozens of schools. Ten primary school groups compete against each other to collect as much e-waste as possible in four weeks. The race starts with a super instructive and above all fun lesson.