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Do companys have to join a compliance scheme for the WEEE i.e take back schemes, in store take back schemes , see http://www.netregs.gov.uk, want to make sure we are up to date with the regs.
Re: Do you have to sign up to a WEEE scheme
I’ve been looking into it. It affects everyone who sells WEEE, including service guys who will have to dispose of faulty part etc. Retailers will have 2 choices.
1. Join Valpak for £750 (depends on turnover, covers 3 years and goes up to £1500 after 15th March). This then allows you to direct customers to the local tip, as I do now for free! You wont be able to do that on 1st July unless you are a member. This gets rid of your WEEE obligation to take appliances back in store. Apparently the money collected by Valpak (who are not for profit and are the only company set up by the goverment) will go towards refurbishing tips.
2. Dont join just register that you wont be joining, you are then obliged to take back all WEEE on a like for like basis. It is then up to you to store it and then take the WEEE to a collection site where it will be recycled (funded by the manufacturer)And i also guess…
3. Do nothing and hope for the best until consumers get wise and force you to take back old appliances!!This link from BIFFA is very helpful. http://www.biffa.co.uk/files/docs/Trans … 007_RO.doc
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Every retailer selling electrical goods, no matter how small a part of their business, will be required to register and contribute to a central fund or offer free in-store take back from implementation date on a ‘like for like’ basis. Unlike the Packaging Waste Regulations, Charities are NOT exempt.
The government expects retailers to have responsibility for ensuring that there is an ‘adequate network’ of facilities that allow consumers to be able to dispose of their WEEE free of charge. At the moment, household waste recycling facilities run by local authorities form the backbone of the existing collection infrastructure, but a significant proportion must be upgraded, which raises a need for investment. In addition, the government may require further collection facilities to be provided on retail parks.
The government has contracted out the operation of the Distributor Takeback Scheme to Valpak which will take responsibility for raising the necessary funds from EEE retailers – approximately £10m – and using them to establish an ‘adequate network’ of facilities. It is expected that this will mostly be based around the Civic Amenity site network, but it is possible that the scheme would have to operate additional facilities where local authorities were not prepared to participate.
As an alternative, a retailer will be able to offer in-store take back for all categories of WEEE sold in their shop. They will be entitled (along with distributors) to free disposal if they deposit any items brought back by consumers at a Designated Collection Facility determined by a Producer Compliance Scheme.
WEEE received by stores will be counted as their own waste and will therefore not lead to sites requiring a special licence.
Retailers will also have to provide information to consumers on how to dispose of electrical waste, either through the store if they operate take back or through the compliance scheme.
Distance sellers (e.g. internet distributors) face the same responsibilities as shop-based retailers.
Re: Do you have to sign up to a WEEE scheme
If I don’t join Valpak will I still be able to take scrap machines to my local scrap metal dealer?
Geoff
Re: Do you have to sign up to a WEEE scheme
roly16 wrote:If I don’t join Valpak will I still be able to take scrap machines to my local scrap metal dealer?
No, not as I understand it Geoff.
John’s the man to speak to on this subject. 😉
K.
Re: Do you have to sign up to a WEEE scheme
I think you can still take it to a scrap dealer, but if you dont join the scheme you are obliged to take back ALL WEEE on a like for like basis. The DTI say a team has been assembled to monitor this (jobs for the boys no doubt)!! You can’t be selective on what you take back so every washer, kettle, plug that you sell you must take back (and keep records of) the old one.
If you can manage that then don’t join but i for one can’t store and dispose of that much in a year.
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