Free electrical equipment for South West charities
A1 Compliance scheme welcomes re-approval
The Electronic Waste Company has taken on three full-time members of staff at its Redruth headquarters, and fourth member of staff based in Birmingham.
In summary, the WEEE Directive requires every ‘producer’ of electric or electronic goods to take legal and financial responsibility for the collection and reuse or recycling of a tonnage of WEEE equivalent to what they have sold in a given period.
The vast majority of producers fulfil this obligation by joining a Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS). The UK Government has approved around 40 such Schemes. In brief, these schemes operate by organising and funding the collection of WEEE from Local Authority waste sites, and arranging for it to be appropriately treated in an Approved Treatment Facility (ATF). The ATF supplies legal certificates confirming what has been recycled to the PCS, which forwards them to its members as proof that their obligation has been met. By ensuring that the tonnage of WEEE it collects in any given period is as close as possible to the total obligation of its members in that period, a sensible PCS can minimise costs for its members.
