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Learn more about the WEEE Directive and recycling
Learn more about the WEEE Directive and how recycling can become an integral part of
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About WEEE
On 1 July, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations came into force in the UK, just six months after the Government enacted regulations to implement the European Union’s WEEE Directive. The aim of the directive, and the regulations, is laudable – to encourage the reuse or recycling of electrical and electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life. The need for it is obvious: the amount of waste from electrical and electronic equipment is growing rapidly, and hazardous components in that waste are a concern for those who operate landfill and waste incineration sites. Not only that, very little of the WEEE generated in Europe is recycled.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment includes everything from large household appliances to battery-operated toys. For the lighting industry, things are complicated
by the fact that the directive does not cover every lighting product. Luminaires for non-domestic use are covered, as is any equipment that controls or spreads light. Gas discharge lamps are included, but not incandescent and halogen types. More than 100 million gas discharge lamps are sold in the UK every year, and estimates suggest that only a quarter of them are recycled. This is where the EU and the Government think the WEEE Directive can have an impact. But if the directive is to succeed, it must include everyone involved in the life-cycle of such products: producers, distributors and end users.
Objectives of the WEEE Directive
To increase reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery, leading to a reduction in the amount of waste going to landfill or incineration to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment to set criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE making producers responsible for financing most of the activities – private householders are to be able to return WEEE without charge.
Lamps that come under this directive are: Fluorescent tubes, Compact fluorescent energy savers, Metal halides, Mercury lamps, High pressure sodium lamps, Low pressure sodium lamps and some studio and theatre lamps.
The WEEE Directive requires producers to take a whole – life responsibility for their products and to meet given target.
For more information see www.recolight.co.uk
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