What is Weee complient recycling

Weee Compliant Recycling what is it?
A question we were asked today was, when we are arranging a collection of computers for weee recycling do we need to record the serial numbers and what are the requirements for weee recycling or computer recycling?

Quite simply weee compliant recycling is where you contract with a company to collect your equipment for recycling and they ensure that the equipment is transported to a weee recycling authorised approved recycling facility for the computer equipment or electrical equipment to then be recycled in accordance with the weee directive and that a recovery rate of raw material recovery exceeds the 65% recovery targets as specified in the weee directive.

We assured our client that all our collections are fully weee compliant recycling solutions and that we ensure that they have the equipment collected by a licensed waste carrier and the legal paperwork namely the hazardous waste transfer paperwork or the duty of care paperwork for the collection is available for the client and collecting company to sign. This legal paperwork is required to be in triplicate with one signed copy left with the client and the other two copies accompanying the equipment to the recycling company. Once the equipment has been accepted by the weee recycling company they will sign the last two copies and the collecting company will keep one copy and the recycling company will keep a copy. This forms the paperwork trail which along with the quarterly returns the recycler has to do to the EA allows the EA to trace a recycling collection by the hazardous waste producers code required for every collection.

Once we have received notification from the recycling company that the equipment they received for computer recycling or weee recycling has been processed we will issue the client with a certificate of destruction which then completes the audit trail that our clients require.

Our main aim is to always ensure that we arrange for all our recycling to be carried out in the UK and that it is carried out in full compliance with all UK and EU laws as well as the Weee directive.

Thanks for reading this info i hope it has been helpful

Paul Waygood
Waycam Technologies Ltd
Tel: 0845 0560537
Web: www.recycling4you.co.uk
email:recycling@waycam.com