The WEEE Directive

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• The WEEE Directive
• - a manufacturers perspective
• Pat Pascoe
• Relationship Marketing Manager

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WEEE?

• WEEE
• Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment
• The EU Directive that controls the disposal of
  equipment

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WEEE Directive What does it cover?

• 10 indicative categories
• Large Household Electrical electronic tools
• Small household Toys leisure sports
• IT and telecom Medical devices
• Consumer equipment Monitoring Equipment
• Lighting equipment Automatic dispensers

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Brief History of the Directives

• 10 years of debate within the EU - wide
  difference of views throughout Europe
• Commission proposal Summer 2000
• DTI consultation commenced
• Consultation published Dec. 2000
• First reading in EU parliament 2001
• 1st Consultation in the UK Spring 2003
• 2nd Consultation in the UK late 2003
• 3rd Consultation in the UK Early Summer 2004
• Directives Deadline 13 August 2005
• - its late

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Producers Responsibility

• Report 2004 UK Sales Data
• Mark equipment to show if placed on the market
  after 13 August 2005
• Indicate if proposing to comply independently or
  via a compliance scheme
• Expected that
• Environment Agency will register producers
• DTI will establish an allocation of WEEE to
  producers based on weight and market share

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Producers responsibility

• From January 2006
• finance the collection, recovery and recycling
  allocated according to market share
• report evidence of treatment at authorised
  treatment facilities
• report evidence that the recovery,
  recycling and reuse targets have
  been met
• The DTI to set up a Task Force regarding
  reuse targets
• provide new equipment details
  and
  mark with Wheelie Bin symbol

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Retailers and Distributors

• Basically
• Provide free in-store take-back on sale of new
  like for like equipment
• or
• Provide alternative arrangements via a compliance
  scheme
• ensure that it is delivered to a designated
  collection facility to enable treatment and
  recovery
• ensure that private householders
• are informed of take-back facilities
• encouraged to participate in the separate
  collection of WEEE
• A further announcement from the Government
  shortly on funding of a retail compliance scheme

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WEEE Directive Treatment

• Treatment, pre landfill
• Removal of
• CFC,HCFC,HFC,HC
• Certain types of plastic
• PCBs containing Capacitors
• PCBs gt 10 sq. cm
• Mercury switches, relays etc.
• Electrolytic caps gt 25 mm high 25 mm wide
• Toner cartridges KM toner cassettes made of one
  type of plastic
• Asbestos waste
• Cathode ray tubes
• Gas discharge lamps
• LCDs gt 100 sq. cm.

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WEEE Directive Round up

• Consumers to return WEEE free of charge
• Retailers to offer free take-back
• Producers do not have to collect themselves, but
  must have End Of Life plans for all products and
  pay from collection onwards according to market
  share
• Recover recycle to the pre-set targets
• Treatment according to standards

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Walking the Talk

• Kyocera Kyoto Ceramics
• Applies core technology to provide products with
  enhanced environmental performance
• The most efficient solar energy-producing systems
• Pollution-reducing ceramic engine components -
  and a prototype solar-powered car
• Amorphous silicon drums enabling cartridge-free
  laser printers

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Office printing neednt cost the earth

• In 1992 Kyocera launched the first ECOSYS printer
• Challenges the idea that environmentally
  responsible alternatives are more expensive

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Ecology is Economy
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The 3Rs

• Reduce
• The revolutionary amorphous silicon drum has
  incredible long life properties
• Reuse
• Optical parts, the imaging section,
  paper and fixing related
  materials
  are all designed for reuse
• Recycle
• To promote recycling, parts are labelled with the
  raw material name

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www.thegreencard.org.uk

• Now in its 4th year
• provides information
• environmentally responsible office practices
• relevant legislation
• Kyocera Mitas environmental sustainability
  practices
• part of wider commitment to promote
  environmentally responsible business
• Has built a community of organisations and
  individuals who are committed to minimising the
  impact of business activities on the environment
• work with partners from respected industry bodies
  to promote the tenets of green business

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Recycle-IT! Ltd

• Refurbished Computers - Refurbishing Lives
• Social Enterprise refurbishing computers for
  education and community use
• Established in 1995
• Largest in Europe in the Social Economy
• Training and employment opportunities for
  long-term unemployed
• To optimise the number of computers made
  available at low cost to low-income groups
• Significant impact on the environmental problems
  caused by IT use and redundancy

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What they do for us.

• Collect Kyocera equipment and/or PCs (minimum 20
  pieces) FOC
• Test donated equipment for electrical safety
• Erase all data and software from the hard disk
• Remove all possible identifying marks from the
  donor company clean equipment
• Track all equipment from donor to recipient

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Thank you
For more informationpat.pascoe_at_kyoceramita.co.uk