Category: Environment

RAL Quality Assurance Association excluded from CECED discussion meeting

A Rotherham company was fined £100,000 (Thursday) after it ignored several warnings from the Environment Agency about illegally dismantling refrigeration units in a way likely to jeopardise the environment or human health.

Repeated delays in the implementation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations by the government have been welcomed by UK organisations, according to a recent survey into their preparedness. The new directive which was due to come into force this year and may now be del…

At UK Whitegoods we get loads of information sent to us every month and often amongst it are some real pearls of wisdom. One such pearl arrived a few days ago from a German company called RAL Quality Assurance Association (www.ral-online.org) outlining the experience in Germany of the WEEE Direct…

The Catalan Waste Management Agency has awarded TPA, Tecnicas de Proteccin Ambiental S.A., an FCC subsidiary, a contract to manage the processing and recycling plant for refrigerators and other appliances containing chlorofluorocarbons.

Finland recycled approximately 9,000 tons of appliances in the first 4 months of full-scale recycling center operations, according to e.finland.fi, the Finnish Information Society Web site.

Independent electrical retailers are today being urged to sign up to the energy saving recommended scheme and take advantage of the new free toolkit from the Energy Saving Trust, as latest figures reveal increasing consumer demand for ‘greener’ products.

Leading electrical retailer Comet, logistics partner Wincanton, and social enterprise organisation Remploy, have won the 2005 National Recycling Award for Best Partnership Project for Recycling (25th October 2005).

As we all know WEEE is on the way for better or worse and, according to the rules, charges cannot be made as an extra “tax” for disposal. It seems as if my local council has elected to ignore that bit of the Directive to an extent and impliment charging sooner than is required. In fact the new le…

The European Recycling Platform has announced that it is the first waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance scheme to be running in multiple countries. Although the UK has postponed implementation of the WEEE Directive until June 2006, several other countries within the EU implemented…