Recent water restrictions throughout the country and memories of rolling blackouts in California and elsewhere are calling consumers’ attention to more energy efficient household appliances.
Category: Environment
Waste management & environmental news surrouonding or involving the domestic appliance industry.
Unwanted fridges reduced to powder
A SOUTH WALES company is profiting from the nation’s unwanted fridges. Evans Logistics, based at Capital Valley Industrial Estate, Rhymney, takes apart unwanted fridges for all of Wales’ and for many English local authorities.
Makers to set-up recycling consortium
TWELVE makers are to set up a company to manage the recycling operations under the new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE).
Electrical waste order may generate sparks
What is in the pipeline? The implementation of the European waste electrical and electronic equipment directive in the UK.
Braun, Electrolux, HP and Sony Move Towards a Pan-European WEEE Recycling Scheme
The European Recycling Platform (ERP) set up by Braun, Electrolux, HP and Sony has today announced the next step in its development. The four companies involved are undertaking business planning to operate a pan-European compliance scheme for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. …
Cast away culture to be binned
THEY are the miracles of modern technology that make our home lives easier and more fun, somehow get cheaper every year and are thrown away without a backwards glance when their useful life is over.
£50,000 fine for waste fridge offences
On 11 August 2003, a Manchester company was fined a total of £52,500 and its director fined £15,000 by Oldham Magistrates for waste offences involving scrap refrigerators at sites in the Oldham area. Britannia Import and Export Limited, of Ledbury Road, Failsworth, and director Robert…
Wincanton: conquering the fridge mountain
September 30, 2003 6:09 PM GMT (Datamonitor) – Wincanton’s [WIN.L] new council contracts to recycle fridges highlight areas of new custom for logistics providers. EU legislation will soon make manufacturers and retailers responsible for the collection and disposal of a wide range of returned elec…
Valpak launches membership council to tackle WEEE
Valpak has launched a Member WEEE Council to discuss the UK’s implementation of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.
Fridge fiasco ‘could be repeated’
New EU regulations on the disposal of cars and electrical appliances risk a repeat of last year’s “fridge mountain” fiasco, a Government advisory body has warned.