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Implementation of the ITU-T International Standards for the Sustainable Management of
Electrical and Electronic Equipment: On the road to a circular economy in Argentina

The baseline year for the flow analysis is 2019 since it was considered that the information from
managers, importers and producers would be easier to obtain.

3.3 Methodology for estimating WEEE

Recommendation ITU-T L.1031 presents two possible methodologies for developing the WEEE
inventory. A comparison of methodologies is shown in Table 3. In this case, a combination of
both methodologies was used to develop information and to estimate EEE and WEEE.

Table 3: Methodologies for EEE and WEEE information generation and estimation

Source: Own elaboration.

Therefore, to apply this methodology, some of the databases mentioned below have been
used. They have been developed by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC),
a decentralized public agency of technical nature within the orbit of the Ministry of Economy,
which manages at the highest level all the official statistical activities carried out in the Argentine
Republic:

1) The foreign trade database.
2) Statistics of Industrial Products (EPI) and data from the Survey of Household Appliance
and Goods Retailers.
3) Information for the last 10 years, that allows developing estimations with reasonable
statistical validity.
4) Analysis of the generation of the average lifetime of EEE in Argentina carried out using
the UNU tool. 28

28 The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Quantities, flows, and the Circular Economy potential, United Nations
University (UNU)/ United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 2020.

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