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...