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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

Figure 19: Imports of EEE tracers and WEEE managed in the study sample Flows in
units of the year 2019

Source: Own elaboration, 2021.
Regarding the WEEE managed, refrigerators dominate by far the ranking in terms of tons
managed, with a 51.5 per cent share compared to other tracers. In terms of units managed,
cell phones dominate the ranking of WEEE managed equipment with a 79.2 per cent share.
The second category in terms of tons managed is computers (8.7%) and in terms of units,
notebooks (8.2%) prevail.

Figure 20 shows the relationship between the flows of WEEE managed and the flows of EEE
consumed for each tracer. The general trend is that the volume of WEEE managed in relation
to the amount of EEE imported does not exceed 1 per cent, except in some cases: refrigerators
(4.4%) and mobile phones (12%). It should be noted that there is insufficient information to
estimate this ratio for computing equipment.

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