Legislative drivers

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Legislative drivers

• Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
  Directive
• Restriction of Hazard Substances (RoHS) Directive
• End of Life Vehicles
• Eco-design of End Use Equipment (EuE) Directive

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WEEE Directive

• Objectives
• Reduction of waste
• Increase in recovery and recycling
• Improved environmental performance
• UK legislation in place August 2004

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WEEE Directive

• Large household appliances
• Small household appliances
• IT telecommunication equipment
• Consumer equipment
• Lighting equipment
• Electrical electronic tools
• Toys, leisure sports equipment
• Medical devices
• Monitoring and control instruments
• Automatic dispensers

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WEEE Directive

• Includes waste electrical items from vehicles
  that are removed from the vehicle prior to
  disposal e.g. In car entertainment systems
• Includes waste electrical items removed from
  Shipping vessels e.g. Instruments and Computer
  systems
• Excludes small businesses with turnover of lt2M
  and lt10 employees)

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WEEE Directive

• Recovery Includes energy recovery, recycling
  reuse
• Producers to set up systems for recovery of
  separately collected WEEE
• Meet recovery targets (from 70 to 80) by weight
  meet re use and recycling targets (50 to 80)
  by 2006

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RoHS Directive

• A Single Market Directive on the restriction of
  certain hazardous substances
• Seeks to reduce the environmental impact of EEE
  by restricting the use of certain hazardous
  substances during manufacture
• Complementary to the WEEE Directive

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RoHS Directive

• What is covered?
• All products covered by the WEEE Directive except
  medical devices
• From 1 July 2006, the following substances will
  be banned - lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent
  chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and
  polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)

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RoHS Directive

• Exemptions
• Mercury (in some applications)
• Lead in the glass of fluorescent tubes
• Some specified applications of lead, cadmium
  plating, hexavalent chromium

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EOL Vehicle Directive

• Scope
• Covering all End of Life Vehicles (ELV) with or
  without original components fitted
• Some exemptions apply in the case of special
  purpose vehicles (ambulances, fire engines etc)

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EOL Vehicle Directive

• ensure all ELVs are only treated by authorised
  dismantlers
• implement new environmental treatment standards
  for ELVs
• increase the reuse and recovery of ELVs to a
  minimum of 85 per vehicle by 2006, with reuse
  recycling at 80. Increasing to 95 85 by 2015
• ensure producers design vehicles with recycling
  in mind
• restrict the use of hazardous substances, some
  will be banned
• producers are to meet all or a significant part
  of the costs of implementation (take back end of
  life vehicles ) from 2007

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EuE Directive

• Scope
• All end-use equipment sold and used within the
  EU that is dependent upon an energy source to
  function (except motor vehicles).
• Design products to ensure a high level of
  environmental protection in balance with
  technical and economic requirements, respecting
  health and safety legislation, and taking into
  account key principles-
• prevent pollution and conserve resources
• make efficient use of energy and materials
• encourage recycling and reuse
• minimise release of hazardous substances
• optimise the useful lifetime
• facilitate end-of-life management