Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations
WASTE ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE) REGULATIONS
These Regulations will be implemented from July 2007. They require anyone who sells qualifying products either to run a take-back scheme allowing customers to return old equivalent products after they purchase new products, then take these returned products to a “designated collection facility” or join a compliance scheme which avoids the take-back requirement for a fee, and which offers information to customers about where they can take their old electrical equipment themselves.
Producers, including importers of goods, must be able to account for the electrical goods they handle. As with the Packaging Waste Regulations, this is likely to happen through compliance schemes, Furthermore all retailers must encourage consumers to recycle, publicising at the time of purchase, at point of sale and elsewhere in store, the customers’ right to take back equipment.
All PBS information sheets are designed to provide the detail you need to implement best business and employment practices. They are not a detailed commentary on the current law and where advice is needed in a specific case you should contact PBS for expert consultation.
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