What do we see?
In 2022, a Flemish household owned an average of 79.7 EEE goods. The majority of these were white goods (32.4 items), ICT (16.8 items) and brown goods (12.7 items). Extrapolated for Flanders, this amounts to 224 million items. The numbers are quite steady over the years. Additional data on lighting are available for the 2022 data year: this amounts to 25.6 units per household or 71.6 million units in Flanders.
What’s the aim?
In a circular economy, we aim to fulfill needs as effectively and efficiently as possible with products and services, which ideally last as long as possible, provided this does not compromise their environmental performance. Circular strategies such as repair and reuse but also the sharing of EEE goods deserve encouragement to extend the life of appliances and intensify use. To make the analysis more complete, data are also needed, for example, on the use status of products.
