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Three proposals to determine how the WEEE compliance fee will be costed in 2015 are currently out for consultation, after having been submitted to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). The Department can choose to use the compliance fee under the revised WEEE regulations, which came into effect from January 2014. The regulations…
UK-based resources charity WRAP is heading up an EU-funded project to explore the commercial opportunities for recovering raw materials from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The EU LIFE-funded project – Critical Raw Material Closed Loop Recovery (CRM Recovery) – will link collection methods with ‘recovery success’, according to WRAP. The project will aim to…
Local authorities are being invited to bid for support from a new scheme to help increase the collection, re-use and recycling of unwanted electrical items, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has announced. A total of £775,000 has been made available by retailers, suppliers and manufacturers of electrical equipment via the the Distributor Take-back…
Meeting higher targets for the collection of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) looks “very achievable”, according to an official from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). Speaking at a WEEE Conference in London in June, Steven Andrews said that both EU collection and producer compliance scheme targets had been achieved, while the…
This year’s WEEE Conference was held at the Connaught Rooms in London by letsrecycle.com. Peter Hunt, our Group Chairman, spoke on the benefits and importance of reuse within the waste hierarchy. Please visit PRESENTATION AND NOTES for a copy of the presentation and notes which have been kindly supplied by letsrecycle.com. (Pictured right: Peter Hunt)
As much as 90% of the waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) produced globally – roughly 369 million tonnes – may be illegally traded or dumped each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The figure comes in a report published by UNEP last month, titled ‘Waste Crimes – Waste Risks: Gaps in…
The EU Commission has announced that it will take Poland and Slovenia to the European Court of Justice for failing to meet the deadline to transpose the Waste Electrical and Electronic Waste (WEEE) Directive into their internal laws. Daily fines requested by the Commission stand at €71,610 (£51,000) for Poland and €8,408 (£5997) for Slovenia….
Don’t miss it! After the end of the first year of the government’s revised WEEE Regulations, letsrecycle.com is revisiting the subject of WEEE. Following the popularity and success of the first WEEE Conference in 2013, the event will take stock of how the changes have affected the industry across the board. The conference will offer…
The amount of WEEE being generated across the globe reached around 41.8 million tonnes in 2014, and is due to reach close to 50 million tonnes before the end of the decade, research published by the UN suggests. These are among the findings contained in the annual ‘Global E-Waste Monitor’ report published by the United…
Photographs show one of west-Africa’s vast electronic graveyards where tonnes of used and unwanted appliances from all over the world are being dumped every year. Computers, microwave and fridges are just a few of the electronic items which are are being illegally exported to African countries and dumped in landfills in Ghana because “it costs…
