Waste Electrical & Electrical Equipment (WEEE)

The regulations came into force on 2 January 2007. Producers have join a compliance scheme by 15 March 2007. Producers have to mark electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) by 1 April 2007. Full responsibility for treating and recycling household WEEE begins on 1 July 2007.

Your business’s electrical and electronic equipment

All businesses that use electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) must comply with the WEEE Regulations.

• You must store, collect, treat, recycle and dispose of WEEE separately from your other waste.
• You must obtain and keep proof that your WEEE was given to a waste management company, and was treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound way.

You are able to return WEEE free of charge if:

• it was sold to you after 13 August 2005
• you are replacing it with new equivalent EEE. In these circumstances the producer’s compliance scheme is responsible for the WEEE. Your EEE supplier can give you information on the take-back system available to you.

• you are discarding EEE which was purchased before 13 August 2005, and are not replacing it with equivalent EEE
• you can not trace the producer or their compliance scheme
• you are purchasing new EEE and you choose, through negotiation with the producer, to accept the future costs of treating and disposing of it