The phrase recycling program many people associated with government initiatives to upgrade the car park, taken during the crisis period 2008-2009. Donating your old car, a citizen could get a discount when you buy a new one. Note that in Europe the size of this discount amounted to a decent amount. In the U.S. and Europe, the company Apple also offers a recycling program, but for owners of electronic devices who want to buy products of the brand.
Now only one-third of electronic devices is processed properly. The new directive is to increase the mass of collected electronic waste from four to twenty pounds in 2020. By this time, hopefully the authorities in Europe will process up to 85% of waste received for disposal of electronic equipment.
European stores that have the sales area of 400 sq m and above will be required to take small appliances such as cell phones for recycling free of charge and shall not obligate the buyer to purchase new. At the same time will decelerate exports of used electronics out of the EU. Thus, in the opinion of European authorities this will cut off the channels of electronic waste exports in other country.