ASEKOL a.s.
About this good practice
- ASEKOL is active in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and since January 2024 in Germany.
- It ensures the collection, transport and recycling of end-of-life electrical appliances, including the financing of the entire system.
- Close cooperation with towns and villages, last sellers and service centeres, collection companies and processors of electrical and electronic equipment.
- More than 17,000 collection points available of these, almost 4,000 are red containers. The red containers is specific instrument of ASEKOL for e-waste collection. This this way of collecting e-waste is already in the awareness of the general public.
- In 2023, it recovered 61,828 tonnes of end-of-life electrical appliances
So far, ASEKOL is the only one in the Czech Republic demonstrably meeting the EU quotas for the collection of electrical and electronic waste.
- It employs more than 1000 people with disabilities.
Resources needed
Asekol is one of the collective systems in the Czech Republic, which is financed mainly by producers of products subject to the take-back system
Evidence of success
- One of the main and largest collective systems in the Czech Republic
- In 2023, it recovered 61,828 tonnes of end-of-life electrical appliances. So far, ASEKOL is the only one in the Czech Republic demonstrably meeting the EU quotas for the collection of electrical and electronic waste.
- More than 17 000 collection points available for the general public.
- Activities in 4 member states of EU.
Potential for learning or transfer
ASEKOL promotes awareness and education in the field of e-waste.
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