More than half the 93 million electrical items thrown away will not be recycled under the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive according to a report from ICER. This is because the items are less than 2kg in size, and householders are likely to throw them away among general household refuse rather than separately in designated WEEE collection facilities. Under the WEEE Directive, recovery and re-use obligations for producers only apply to separately collected WEEE.