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What is the WEEE
Directive?
What is WEEE?
The Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive
The Directive requires European countries
to maximise separate collection and
environmentally friendly processing of
these items.
The WEEE Directive
became UK law on the
1st January 2014; the
directive was an EU
wide directive
The legislation aims to make producers
pay for the collection, treatment and
recovery of waste electrical equipment.
The regulations also means that suppliers
of electrical equipment like us, the high
street stores and internet retailers must
allow consumers to return their waste
electrical equipment free of charge.
For Example:
A customer buys a new washing machine
from us, we'll accept free of charge their
old washing machine and prevent it going
into a landfill site by disposing of it safely.
Most of the UK’s WEEE
ends up in landfill
Most of the UK’s WEEE ends up in landfill,
where the Lead and other Toxins it
contains can cause soil and water
contamination. This can have a harmful
effect on natural habitat, wildlife and also
human health.
The amount of WEEE we throw away is
increasing by around 5% each year –
making it the fastest growing waste issue
in the UK. Many electrical items that we
throw away can be repaired or recycled.
Recycling items helps to save our natural
finite resources and also reduces the
environmental and health risks associated
with sending electrical goods to landfill.
Distributors of new Electric and Electronic
Equipment (EEE) have a part to play in
reducing the amount of WEEE going into
landfill sites.
Electrical goods are
marked with a symbol
Under the WEEE Regulations, all new
electrical goods should now be marked
with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol.
Goods are marked with this symbol to
show that they were produced after 13th
August 2005, and should be disposed of
separately from normal household waste
so that they can be recycled.
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