Companies using a UK IT recycling service like that of Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) may be interested to read of some of the latest recycling developments elsewhere in Europe, including the setting out of principles to reduce the waste that businesses generate, by Zero Waste Europe. Zero Waste Europe is...
Disposal levels ‘could increase’ as a result of new Defra waste plan
The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has criticised Defra’s Waste Management Plan for England as lacking vision, claiming that waste disposal levels could increase as a result of its implementation, cardboard collections specialist Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) reports. The Committee, which represents 75 per cent of the UK’s local...
Recyclers urge ‘ambition’ in EU waste targets
The Resource Association has responded to the European Union’s consultation on existing recycling and landfill diversion targets by urging greater ambition in the setting of new ones, news that may interest those taking advantage of the waste collections of Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com). The EU’s consultation on the amendment of...
WEEE schemes taken by surprise by de minimis advice
Concern has been expressed by WEEE compliance schemes about Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) correspondence suggesting that small electronics producers should defer registration for 2014, computer scrap specialist Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) can report. The Department told producers placing less than five tonnes of electronic goods on the...
WEEE consultation suggests backing for change
Plans by the government to transform the manner in which the UK’s compliance system for waste electrical and electronic equipment is run have received broad backing from IT recyclers, electronics producers and WEEE compliance schemes, reports Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com). There was particularly strong backing for the government’s two preferred...
Consultation findings draw largely positive response from WEEE compliance schemes
There has been a positive response from various electronics goods producers and waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance schemes to the findings of the consultation by the government on altering the WEEE disposal regime in the UK, Collect and Recycle (http://www.collectandrecycle.com) reports. The proposals did see some opposition, however, amid questions about...
What the new WEEE regulations mean to producers of EEE?
This September, stakeholders in the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) sector are awaiting how the results of proposed amendments to the recast WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU will affect them, but how will this affect small to medium producers of electrical equipment? The amendments to the legislation have been in light...