Category: Environment

REPIC, the not-for-profit recycling body set up by 45 of the UK’s leading electrical goods producers, has welcomed the government’s announcement of a delay to the implementation of the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive until January 2006. The WEEE Directive will impact…

The government today (24/03/2005) confirmed that new regulations on waste electronics will be completed later this year, with producer responsibility starting in January 2006. The DTI has confirmed a revision of the Clearing House proposal for organising responsibility for waste electronics, and …

The UK government postponed implementation of an EU directive that would have forced retailers and manufacturers to recycle half a million tons of mobile phones, toasters, radios, televisions, computers, washing machines, refrigerators, and other electrical goods.

New research has found that UK householders throw away twice the number of electrical items than was previously thought ““ amounting to one million tonnes of material, or 16kg per person. But, more than half the 93 million electrical items thrown away will not be recycled under the European…

The Environment Committee adopted on Tuesday almost unanimously (56 in favour and 1 abstention) a second reading recommendation by Frederique RIES (ALDE, BE) aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of electrical products. By comparison with the original legislation, MEPs want to place even more…

Thousands of jobs in the electronics manufacturing sector could move abroad unless the government passes the costs of the WEEE Directive onto the consumer. That was the warning from REPIC, the compliance scheme run by a consortium of waste electronics producers to help companies comply with the p…

According to the European Union’s (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, each manufacturer and importer of electrical appliances must finance the recycling of the electrical products it places on the market, beginning in August 2005. Presently, producers share recycling …

The government will set out its emissions policy on Monday following European Commission opposition to plans to raise the UK’s ceiling on carbon emissions under the European Union’s greenhouse gas trading scheme which it believes to be too generous to industry.

Welsh local authorities are being given an extra £2.83 million this financial year to help with the recycling of domestic fridges.

The Government is considering moving back UK target dates for compliance to the EU WEEE (waste) Directive. According to the WEEE Directive, producers in member states must be recycling products discarded by consumers from August this year. To allow industry to hit this deadline, the Government ai…