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The release of the Government’s response to comments raised from its consultation on the proposed changes to the producer compliance system for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been pushed back to ‘early’ September. The government had originally planned to publish its response on Friday August 16, eight weeks after the conclusion of the…
The WEEE consultation process is fast approaching a conclusion. BIS have confirmed that there were over 250 responses to the consultation and have been able to advise preliminary findings of the consultation. The initial results from the consultation state that there is a requirement for change against the current system. To recap the industry was…
In the opinion of some observers, the last 20 years has seen consumer driven consumption reach unsustainable levels. The difficult financial conditions over the last 5 years looks to have changed habits, with growth of reuse in electrical goods illustrating this new trend. A number of well-known charities have been at the forefront of this…
WasteCare have been part of the team that has just completed Europe’s largest digital switchover campaign. Starting in early 2011 WasteCare were tasked with providing a collection and recycling service for over 1,400 aerial transmitter installations across the whole of the British Isles. Located up mountains, on remote islands from the Scilly Isles to the…
WasteCare Group’s recent WEEE2 conferences in Leeds and London were a great success, giving all attendees the unique chance to directly lobby Government. Feedback from the event reflects this feeling with many attendees stating that it was “well organised, with informative speakers”. Speakers and delegates represented stakeholders from producers, retailers, local government, compliance schemes and…
With barely two weeks to go until the WEEE Recast Consultation period ends and with so many drastically different options still being considered by BIS, it is more important than ever that producers and other stakeholders understand the options and make their voices heard. Last Monday WasteCare Group held the first of their WEEE2 conferences…
Last week the Government began their 8 week consultation period for the long awaited recast WEEE Regulations. In response, WeeeCare Plc have arranged two conferences in early June for members and have invited delegates to understand the implications of the proposed options and to assist producers, retailers and other stakeholders to respond to the Government’s…
The new Electrofarm.co.uk website has now been live a little over a month and the sales are already picking up pace. The refurbished items offered on the site represents the highest grade stock available at our Normanton reprocessing facility with many items still in their original packaging. With this in mind, it is understandable that…
The continued expansion of the recycling and reuse operation at the WasteCare Normanton facility has enabled the company to rise to even higher levels of productivity. With over 300 fridges, 300 washing machines and 800 TVs being remanufactured every week at the site, not to mention over 1,000 small household appliances, there was only one…
“The ‘New’ Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations are to come into force in 2014. The impact of WEEE2 is expected to be as big as when the Regulations were first introduced back in 2007. In order to keep members fully up to date with news and developments on WEEE2, WeeeCare will be running seminars…
