UK WEEE Directive
Aim- To minimise the impacts of electrical and
electronic equipment on the environment during their
life time and when they become waste.
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What is WEEE trying to Achieve
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Who is responsible
Producers and Importers (P/Is) of electrical & electronics
to the EU regardless of size and market shire.
Brand named products are classified, in this case, as the
responsible company.
Sub-assemblies by another manufacturer within a branded
product are still the responsibility of the brand name.
Sub-assemblies sold on the open market that usable in its
own entity are classified as branded products.
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Who is responsible
Communication and Radio manufactures have split into
two groups as to registering with a scheme;
1. Registering as the brand name.
2. Use their importers as there registering company(s)
In some cases it has transpired that there are multiple
importers registered with a schemes to cover one single
brand.
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Financing & Collection of WEEE
• Producers/Importers will have to register with a scheme,
Anyone suitably qualified can develop their own.
• Financing will be according to market shire.
• The scheme will organise collection of materials from
B2B/B2C customers facilities and or recycling centres.
• Reporting guidelines are only just being given by
SEPA/EA.
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Fixed Installations
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Legislative Considerations
Waste Management License (Site and Carrier)
Landfill Directive
Battery Directive
Basel Convention (In force for 11 years)
Trans-frontier Shipment Regulations
European Waste Catalogue
EA/SEPA interpretation of the laws!
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Legislative Considerations
P/Is have a Duty of Care to ensure their products are
recycled in an environmental manner and their recycling
partners have the appropriate “know how”, accreditations
and waste management licences. Reuse and resale are to
be encouraged.
The WEEE Directive will require recyclers AATFs to
have at least ISO14001 and the “appropriate” WML. And
to be an AE (Approved Exporter) when exporting any
recycling materials aboard regardless of classification.
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Legislative Impacts
The WEEE Directive interacts with other directives. If an
item is not considered fit for the original purpose it may be
considered as waste! Even some materials moved across
border for repair maybe classified as waste! (England &
Wales differ in the interpretation of waste to Scotland.
Movement of waste nationally follows the EWC
classifications. Internationally the movement of waste
follows the OECD Basel Convention on the trans-frontier
movement of waste regulations (TFS)
Materials that are “green listed” in one directive maybe
hazardous waste (“amber listed”) in the other.
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Recycling Effectively
•ISO 9001 2000 & 14001 are important.
•Audit trails, environmental and financial are just as
important.
•Defined process flows.
•Recording of reporting of data.
•EMS information so P/Is can report back WEEE
information.
•Experienced electronics recyclers have good working
knowledge of legislation, hazards etc.
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UK WEEE Time Frame
2rd January 2007 UK WEEE became law.
31st January applications for UK WEEE schemes have to be
lodged with the UK Environment Agencies.
15th March Producers & Importers have to be registered with
Compliance Scheme.
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1 April 2007 Producer responsibility for hazardous WEEE
products which include screens, monitors, fridges, freezers and
gas discharge lamps.
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1 July 2007 Full Producer responsibility starts (First Period)
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15 October 2007 Producers & Importers have to be registered
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with Compliance Scheme for 2 Period.
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1 January 2008 Second Period, all UK P/Is must be registered
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UK WEEE Scheme
37 schemes have been registered for the UK
4000 P/Is have enlisted so far out of a potential 37,000
The remaining P/Is have until the end of the 1st period
(December 07) to join a scheme
Many manufacturers have joined a scheme thinking it will
solve their obligations, and it will! But they will lose the
full audit trail and sight of the path the products take
through the recycling process and whether onto the reuse
market!!!
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UK WEEE Scheme
Datec operates one of the schemes as a JV with BTR,
Warrington to enable its customer’s to maintain continuity
over their WEEE obligations and recycling of their
products.
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WEEE Compliance UK (WCUK)
Europe
Datec/BTR are licensed operate a B2B Compliance Scheme
WCUK is registered with SEPA but will operate throughout the
UK, but will have facilities in Scotland and England.
To offer our customers in-house recycling and WEEE
compliance via WCUK JV customised to suit.
Audit route from WCUK to AATFs very defined.
Helps keep our existing customers from being part of another
scheme which can use another AATF
Remember! Datec & BTR are AATFs (not the WEEE scheme
WCUK.
In reality, WCUK is there to help facilitate our core
businesses.
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WEEE Compliance UK (WCUK)
Europe
Administration/reporting cost – negotiable, depending upon
customer £450 to £900 per period.
• effective solutions with clear cost model
• WCUK will handle all your compliance legal obligations
• Full WEEE reporting
• Producer registration free;
Non VAT reg £30
Upto £1m £225
Over £1m £445
• Self financing (depending upon products)
• Datec and BTR designated AATF & AE (scheme parents)
• WEEE + EWC,OECD, Battery (2008) directive updates
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WEEE Compliance UK (WCUK)
Europe
2- Small household appliances.
3- IT and Telecommunications.
4- Consumer Equipment.
7- Toys, leisure and sports equipment.
8- Medical Devices.
9- Monitoring and control instruments.
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WEEE Compliance UK (WCUK)
Europe
Both companies will still offer their brand of recycling/asset
management using WCUK (Europe) as a vehicle for business.
• Datec will continue to work with Telecomunications and
manufacturing companies both as a scheme and AATF we can
cover our customers WEEE requirements for recycling and
reporting, not only for the UK but anywhere in Europe.
• Offering total control, logistics, Transfrontier movement,
serial/IMEI recording, dissassembly for parts, stock return,
component refurbishment (to board level), metal refining, battery
collection, testing, and recycling (in conjuntion with AkkuSer).
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WEEE Compliance UK (WCUK)
Europe
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European Battery Directive
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European Battery Directive
The Directive prohibits:
•batteries and accumulators, whether or not
incorporated in appliances, containing more than
0.0005% by weight of mercury (except for button cells,
which must have a mercury content of less than 2%
by weight);
•portable batteries and accumulators, including those
incorporated in appliances, with a cadmium content by
weight of more than 0.002% (except for portable
batteries and accumulators for use in emergency and
alarm systems, medical equipment or cordless power
tools).
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Europan Battery Directive “old”
ANNEX I
BATTERIES AND ACCUMULATORS COVERED BY
THE DIRECTIVE
1. Batteries and accumulators put on the market as from the
date laid down in Article 11 (1) and containing:
- more than 25 mg mercury per cell, except alkaline
manganese batteries,
- more than 0,025 % cadmium by weight,
- more than 0,4 % lead by weight.
2. Alkaline manganese batteries containing more than 0,025
% mercury by weight placed on the market as from the date
laid down in Article 11 (1).
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
Member States must take whatever measures are needed
(including economic instruments) to promote and maximise
separate waste collections and prevent batteries and
accumulators being thrown away as unsorted municipal
refuse.
They have to make arrangements enabling end-users to
discard spent batteries and accumulators at collection
points in their vicinity and have them taken back at no
charge by the producers.
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
The recycling of battery and accumulator content to
produce similar products or for other purposes has to
reach the following levels by 26 September 2011:
•at least 65% by average weight of lead-acid batteries
and accumulators, including the recycling of the lead
content to the highest degree that is technically feasible;
•75% by average weight of nickel-cadmium batteries and
accumulators, including the recycling of the lead content
to the highest degree that is technically feasible;
•at least 50% by average weight of other battery and
accumulator waste.
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
Collection rates of at least 25% and 45% have to be
reached by 26 September 2012 and 26 September 2016
respectively.
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
In principle, it must be possible to remove batteries and
accumulators readily and safely.
It is for Member States to ensure that manufacturers design their
appliances accordingly.
Member States also have to ensure that, from 26 September 2009 at
the latest, batteries and accumulators that have been collected are
treated and recycled using the best available techniques.
Recycling must exclude energy recovery.
As a minimum, treatment must include removal of all fluids and
acids. Batteries and accumulators must be treated and stored (even
if only temporarily) in sites with impermeable surfaces and
weatherproof covering, or in suitable containers.
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
Treatment and recycling may take place outside the Member State
concerned or even outside the Community, provided EU legislation
on
the shipment of waste
is respected.
The producers have to bear the cost of collecting, treating and
recycling industrial, automotive and portable batteries and
accumulators, as well as the costs of campaigns to inform the public
of these arrangements. Small producers may be exempted from this
obligation if this does not impede the proper functioning of the
collection and recycling schemes. All producers of batteries and
accumulators have to be registered.
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To ensure that a high proportion of spent batteries and
accumulators are recycled
Key terms
•"Battery" or "accumulator": any source of electric energy generated
by direct conversion of chemical energy and consisting of one or
more primary battery cells (non-rechargeable) or of one or more
secondary battery cells (rechargeable).
•"Button cell": any small round portable battery or accumulator
whose diameter is greater than its height and which is used for
special purposes such as hearing aids, watches, small portable
equipment and back-up power.
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WEEE & the Battery Directive
WEEE Article 4 Product Design
Member State shall encourage the design and production of
EEE which takes into account and facilitates the dismantling
and recovery, in particular the reuse and recycling of WEEE,
their components and materials
BATTERY Article 11 Removal of Waste Batteries
Member States shall ensure that manufacturers design
appliances in such a way that waste batteries and
accumulators can be readily removed
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RoHS and Batteries
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Date Times
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