WEEE Measurement

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WEEE Measurement reporting considerations
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• SCOPE
• To identify the mandatory recycling and recovery
  targets for each of the ten categories of
  equipment (see Table 1).
• To propose a means of measuring, auditing and
  reporting amounts of recycling and recovery.

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Table 1 Recovery and recycling targets for WEEE

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The highlighted categories of WEEE in Table 1
have been broken down further to specify the
actual items covered by the WEEE Directive. This
information is given on the next two slides.
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• Categories of electrical and electronic equipment
  covered by this directive
• IT and Telecommunication equipment
• Centralized data processing
• Mainframes
• Minicomputers
• Printer units
• Personal computing
• Personal computers (CPU, mouse, screen and
  keyboard included)
• Lap-top computers (CPU, mouse, screen and
  keyboard included)
• Note-book computers
• Note-pad computers
• Printers
• Copying equipment
• Electrical and electronic typewriters
• Pocket and desk calculators
• User terminals and systems
• Facsimile
• Telex
• Telephones

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• Consumer equipment
• Radio sets
• Television sets
• Videocameras
• Video recorders
• Hi-fi recorders
• Audio amplifiers
• Musical instruments
• Other

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• 2. The following components of WEEE that are
  separately collected have to be treated as
  indicated
• Cathode ray tubes the fluorescent coating has
  to be removed
• Equipment containing CFC, HCFC or HFCs the CFC
  present in foam and the refrigerating circuit
  must be properly extracted and destroyed. HCFC or
  HFCs present in foam and refrigeration circuit
  must be properly extracted and destroyed or
  recycled.
• Gas discharge lamps the mercury must be
  removed.
  
  
  

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• Selective Treatment for Materials and Components
  of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipement
• 1. The following substances, preparations and
  components have to be removed from any separately
  collected WEEE
• PCB containing capacitors
• Mercury containing components, such as switches
• Batteries
• Printed circuit boards
• Toner cartridges, liquid and pasty, as well as
  colour
• Plastic containing brominated flame retardants
• Asbestos waste
• Cathode ray tubes
• CFC, HCFC or HFCs
• Gas discharge lamps
• Liquid crystal displays of a greater surface area
  than 100 square centimetres and all those
  back-lighted with gas discharge lamps.
• The above shall be disposed of or recovered in
  compliance with Article 4 of Council Directive
  75/442/EEC.
  
  

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• Extended Producer Responsibility
• The main aim is to make industry responsible for
  the environmental effects of its products.
• Where possible the re-use of WEEE and
  components is to be implemented. WEEE exported
  to non EU countries has to be suitable and
  intended for re- use and not for recycling,
  recovery or disposal.
• Producers should finance collection,
  treatment, recovery and disposal of WEEE.
• Historical waste is to be shared equally by
  all producers at the time when the costs arise,
  in proportion to their respective share of the
  market by equipment type and volume.
  Alternatively, member states may make users
  (other than those from private households)
  partially or totally responsible.
• Member states shall ensure that by 30 months
  after entry into the directive all WEEE is
  collected separately and rates of collection,
  re-use, recovery, recycling and export of WEEE
  are monitored.

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Table 2 Definitions of key terms used
¹which means the use of combustible waste as a
means of generating energy through direct
incineration with or without other waste but with
recovery of the heat.
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Table 3 Definitions of key terms cont.
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Schedule By 31st December 2005, producers must
have met the targets set out in Table 1.
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• The Needs of the Directive
• The directive requires a register to be produced
  detailing the quantity of EEE placed onto the UK
  market, the amount imported and exported.
• Data required
• name and address of producer, company
  registration number, SIC
• activity or activities performed e.g.
  manufacturer, distributor or importer of WEEE
• for each category of WEEE listed in Table 1, the
  weight of EEE (in tonnes) sold in the UK
• for each category of WEEE listed in Table 1, the
  weight of EEE (in tonnes) exported.

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• Flow of WEEE from end users to recovery stages
• The directive requires each member state to
  ensure that all WEEE is collected separately
  (from other waste streams) and rates of
  collection, re-use, recovery, recycling and
  export of WEEE monitored.
• A report has to be submitted every two years
  including the following data
• reprocessor details including name, address,
  company registration number, waste licence
  details, activity such as refurbishing,
  dismantling, shredding, melting, recycling (in
  accordance with definitions given in Table 2 and
  Table 3)
• quantity of WEEE collected
• category of WEEE
• quantity of materials reused, recovered,
  recycled for each category.
• If individual responsibility is enforced, the
  Environmental Agency will require
• weight of WEEE collected, reused, recovered and
  recycled by category and by make (manufacturer or
  brand)

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• Technical Barriers of the Directive
• Where a shredding operation is involved, the data
  that is collected will be very short of the data
  that would be required to fulfil the needs of the
  directive because
• it is difficult, if not impossible to separate
  by category, any incoming WEEE in order to
  accurately quantify it
• it is difficult to assign output materials to
  individual categories
• it is impossible in many cases to identify the
  make of an item.

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• The Data Capture System
• The data required for the directive could be
  captured on a national WEEE database, which would
  be held and maintained by the Regulator(s).
• The system would involve
• a data entry system
• modelling and analysis capabilities
• report generation
• an administrative centre where access to various
  areas could be controlled

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• Conclusions
• producers and regulators of the WEEE Directive
  will need to know how much WEEE has been
  recovered and recycled, with some producers
  wanting to know how much of their own brand of
  WEEE has been recycled.
• separation of WEEE upstream (see Figure 1) may
  add value to the materials (e.g. items could be
  refurbished and sold rather than being shredded
  and sold as aggregate).
• a central database that can capture data at a
  local level (from producers and reprocessors) may
  be set up that will allow the Government and the
  Regulators to analyse data on WEEE recycling.
  This would provide an auditable database, capable
  of generating any reports required by European
  Government as well as for the UK, and provide a
  tool to assist with national strategic planning.

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References Resource Recovery Forum The
measurement of WEEE.