The WEEE Directive came fully into effect in UK on 1 July 2007. It requires the recycling of almost all unwanted articles that are powered by mains electricity or by batteries - they may no longer be discarded in landfill.
FAQs
General FAQs relating to the WEEE Directive and the Regulations which implement it in England and Wales
*with acknowledgements to greenstar
Retailers & Distributors
Producers & Importers
Householders
Businesses
Information for Householders
- On buying a new electrical or electronic item in a shop you should be given guidance on proper disposal of any item which it is replacing. This is likely either to be a request to take it to the special WEEE collection facilities at your local Recycling Centre or Civic Amenity Site, or to take it back to that same shop within a reasonable period (usually 28 days), where you will be able to leave it for disposal. Whichever you are offered, there will be no charge to you.
- Disposal of any other item of WEEE, not being replaced with new, is only possible at local authority sites or at other authorised sites (known as ‘Third Party Designated Collection Facilities’). REVAMP is one of these – click here to get our location details and opening hours. Bringing it to us, rather than to a local authority site, significantly increases the chance that it (or its components) will be re-used, thus avoiding the consumption of fresh resources and energy in manufacturing a brand new product. By supporting us, too, you will be helping create and maintain employment for people whose working lives have been fragmented or disrupted.
- SOFA Project will collect unwanted domestic appliances from your home. Call 0117 954 3567 or
contact us via the SOFA Project
website. Alternatively go directly to our shared 'collection wizzard' to be contacted by a
member of staff.
- Please be aware that you must not take such waste to shops or stores for disposal.
- Please don’t be tempted to dispose of WEEE at home in your bin or black bag. The WEEE arrangements have been put in place so that the damaging effects of WEEE in landfill will be reduced. Click here to find out more about the harm that land-filled WEEE does to our environment.