Category: Environment

The Environment Agency’s first audit of fridge recycling facilities has suggested that half of reprocessors are not recovering a “reasonable” amount of ozone-depleting substances from their processed fridges. Published today, the Agency audit found that four out of eight fridge recycling sites in…

Producer responsibility scheme Valpak has signed up Tesco as the latest member of its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive pre-compliance service. The addition of the largest UK retailer brings the number of companies who have joined the scheme up to 60. Other companies alre…

EACH year, UK businesses and households throw out more than one million tonnes of electrical and electronic goods, ranging from stereo units to computer terminals and printers. This mountain of equipment represents a huge burden on the country’s waste disposal system, and is estimated to be growi…

The massive task of clearing Greater Manchester’s fridge mountains is under way – but will not be completed until the spring. Teams of workers have moved on to three of the five sites in the region, where an estimated 120,000 scrap fridges have been dumped.

Over half of global manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipment do not know how to comply with impending European Union recycling and environmental initiatives, a survey has claimed.

China has taken a big step towards establishing a collection and recycling system for waste electrical and electronics equipment (WEEE). That is expected to affect a wide-range of appliance and electronics equipment makers from around the world, as China is emerging as both a major manufacturing …

The timetable for new waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) Directive regulations has been as “impossible” by industry stakeholders. Replies to the government’s latest consultation said that it was a risk to rush through complex regulations in a short timescale and the time given for d…

China is to accelerate the pace of drafting the Regulations on the Comprehensive Utilization of Resources and the Regulations on the Management of Recycling and Disposal of Rejected and Worn-out Household Appliances and Electronics Products in a bid to promote the development of the recycling eco…

Three companies are in the running for the contract to tackle the “fridge mountains” in Manchester’s Trafford Park area.

It has come to light today in the national newspapers as well as on the web that there has been a problem in Manchester that has led to the production of a huge fridge mountin of over an estimated 120,000 fridges. Most of the national newspapers seem to have picked up on the story as well as the …