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Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE)

MonitorsThe Wales Environment Trust is currently engaged in devising a holistic solution to the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) by working in conjunction with a number of stakeholder businesses throughout Wales. In order to support this initiative and ensure compliance with the requirements of the Directive, co-ordinated and proactive action has and will continue to be taken. Our focus and aim is to establish best practice models to process categories of WEEE and resulting component waste steams and to maximise the opportunities that the WEEE Directive presents.

Waste TelevisionIt is important that all businesses affected by the Directive, including producers, retailers and users, interact with local authorities, the waste management industry and consumers to ensure responsible management of the WEEE waste stream. The Trust aims to make this interaction easier and more efficient.

The Waste Strategy 2000 sets out the routes for dealing with waste in accordance with the 'waste hierarchy'. This places waste minimisation, and reuse of products near the top, as preferred options for dealing with waste, and disposal to landfill at the bottom, as the least favoured method of waste disposal.

At least one million tonnes of electronic equipment is thrown away by households and businesses every year. Almost all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) contains hazardous substances such as lead, mercury or CFCs which can be harmful to both humans and the environment. The average PC and monitor contains around 2kg of lead.

Source: SEPA

The implementation of the WEEE Directive, and the subsequent achievement of the recovery and recycling targets, could lead to between 133,000 tonnes to 339,000 tonnes of electrical equipment waste being diverted from landfill per annum in the UK, which will reduce the risk of hazardous substances leaching into the environment, and reclaim the precious materials used in the manufacture of such equipment.

(Source: Better Reg Task Force 2004)

Who should be interested in these pages?

The WEEE Directive is wide-ranging in nature and a number of businesses will be affected, both directly and indirectly, by the requirements of the Directive. The range of business sectors likely to be affected will include:

  • EEE Producers (Manufacturers) - including importers and exporters;
  • EEE Distributors (Retailers and wholesalers);
  • Dismantlers who deal with WEEE;
  • Secondary metal merchants who deal with WEEE;
  • Shredders who deal with WEEE;
  • Recyclers who deal with WEEE;
  • Reprocessors who deal with materials from WEEE
  • Landfill operators

Email: info@walesenvtrust.org.uk

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