"The amount of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) Placed on Market (POM) in the Western Balkans region increased from 0.16 Mt (9 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0.21 Mt (13 kg/inhabitant) in 2021. Likewise, the regional e-waste generated nearly doubled from 0.09 Mt (5.3 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0.15 Mt (9.0 kg/inhabitant) in 2021. Large Equipment (Category IVa(1)) and Small Equipment (Category V) are the largest categories of both EEE POM and e-waste generated, at 65% (Category IVa 40%, Category V 25%) and 59% (Category IVa 29%, Category V 30%), respectively. The e-waste generation growth rates in all countries of the region are generally positive, with the exception of Lamps, Small IT, and Screens and Monitors. The Western Balkan countries collected and managed 38.4 kt (2.4 kg/inhabitant) of e-waste in an environmentally sound manner in 2021, which yields a total collection rate of 27%. Environmentally sound e-waste management may be defined as taking all possible steps to ensure that end-of-life products and waste are managed in a manner that will protect human health and the environment, and it involves the separate collection, dismantling, and pollution of hazardous substances and recycling of valuable materials, while other waste-related activities include waste dumping, waste-picking, disposal, etc. and may include the informal sector(2,3). All Western Balkan countries have specific legislation on this currently in force, supporting the environmentally sound management of e-waste. In practice, the environmental sound management of e-waste in the Western Balkans occurs mainly in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina." (Executive summary, pages 14-15)