Cyprus collected 4.7 kilograms of waste electrical and electronic equipment per resident in 2024, according to figures reported by Stockwatch. The number puts a hard figure on a material stream that the island, like every other EU member state, must keep lifting under the bloc's tightened recovery framework.

What does the figure cover?

The 4.7 kg per capita metric refers to separated collection of e-waste — the WEEE stream that runs from large household appliances through to small electronics — divided across the Cypriot population for calendar year 2024. Per-capita collection is the standard yardstick used across the European Union to compare member-state performance, because it strips out differences in total population and lets regulators rank systems directly.

Collection at this rate means Cypriot households and businesses are diverting a measurable tonnage of end-of-life electronics into the formal recovery chain rather than into residual waste or untracked exports. That is the stream from which recyclers recover copper, aluminium, steel and printed circuit boards. Every kilogram collected is a kilogram that enters a licensed treatment route instead of a landfill cell.

The figure comes from the Cypriot reporting captured by Stockwatch; it is a national result, not a company throughput number, and it should be read as the jurisdiction-level score for the year.

Why per-capita collection is the number that matters

The EU's WEEE regime grades member states on collected kilograms per head, and it is the metric that determines whether a national system is compliant or on a watch list. Cyprus has historically operated as a smaller, island-based collection market — with the logistics costs that islands carry — so clearing close to five kilograms per resident marks a functional system rather than a marginal one.

For the recycling trade, the collection rate is the leading indicator. It tells processors and compliance schemes how much feedstock the Cypriot system will release into treatment capacity, and it tells equipment producers what their extended producer obligation will cost through the national scheme.

What comes next for the Cypriot stream?

The 2024 result now sits in the record. What determines the trajectory is the next reporting cycle: whether collection holds above the four-kilogram line, whether island logistics keep the sorted stream moving to treatment, and whether the national scheme keeps pace with the small-electronics fraction — the category that reliably leaks into household residual waste.

Stockwatch's report gives the 2024 figure; the 2025 collection result will show whether Cyprus is consolidating or coasting. That is the milestone to watch.