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ALEX MCFARLANE
  • Overview of WEEE and ROHS Regulations

2
Session Topics
  • Background to Directives
  • Timescales
  • Scope
  • Key Elements
  • Issues for HE Sector
  • Further information

3
Background to Directives
  • Minimise resource depletion
  • Minimise air, water and ground pollution
  • Improve reuse, recycling and recovery
  • Emphasis on producer responsibility

4
Timescales
  • WEEE 13 August 2005
  • ROHS 1 July 2006

5
Scope
  • Large household appliances
  • Small household appliances
  • IT and telecomms equipment
  • Consumer equipment
  • Lighting equipment
  • Electrical and electronic tools (except
    large-scale stationary industrial tools)
  • Toys, leisure and sports equipment
  • Medical devices
  • Monitoring and control instruments
  • Automatic dispensers

6
Key Elements - WEEE
  • Encourage the design and production of equipment
    which take into account dismantling and recovery
  • Separate collection of WEEE through recovery
    systems
  • Treatment of WEEE according to best practice
  • Imposition of recovery rates (40 - 90 recovery
    and recycling by weight depending on product
    category)
  • Historic waste replacement

7
Key Elements ROHS
  • From July 2006 new electrical and electronic
    equipment put on the market cannot contain more
    than the maximum permitted concentration in
    values of
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Cadmium
  • Hexavalent Chromium
  • Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB)
  • Polybrominated disphenyl ether (PBDE)
  • There are some exemptions
  • Put on the market means manufactured or imported

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Issues for Sector
  • User or producer responsibility
  • Universities as producers
  • Duty of Care re. disposals
  • Inventory management
  • Historic waste replacement
  • - like-for-like
  • - equivalent function
  • Pricing issues new purchases
  • WEEE collection
  • Residual values

  • Contd..

9
Issues for Sector
  • WEEE segregation, collection and transportation
  • Taking back of other manufacturers WEEE
  • Equipment leasing
  • Supplier design issues
  • - impact on functionality, performance, quality
    and product life
  • Tendering Procedures
  • Hazardous Waste Regulations
  • - licensing

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Further Information
  • http//weee.procureweb.ac.uk/index.html
  • http//www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability.weee/index
  • http//www.icer.org.uk/WEEE20030127.pdf
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