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Introduction of EU China WEEE regulation and
3R assessment
Title

• Author Dr. Lu Chunyang
• Safety and Environment Department
  of CTTL-terminal, CATR

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Main content

• The EU WEEE Directive
• China WEEE
• 3R assessment

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The EU WEEE Directive

• (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)
• Directive 2002/96/EC of January 27, 2003
• published in the OJ L 37 of 13. February 2003
• 10 categories
• establish recover system and collection
  target(55-75)

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What is the WEEE Directive?

• The WEEE Directive seeks to reduce the
  environmental impact of
• electrical electronic equipment at the end
  of its use.
• The Directive aims to
• Increase recovery recycling of WEEE
• Improve the environmental performance
  throughout the life cycle of WEEE
• Implement producer responsibility for WEEE

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WEEE Directive Product Categories

• The Directive applies to all electrical and
  electronic equipment placed on the market falling
  in to the following 10 categories

1. Large household appliances
2. Small household appliances
3. IT telecommunication equipment
4. Consumer equipment
5. Lighting equipment
6. Electrical and electronic tools
7. Toy, leisure and sports equipment
8. Medical devices
9. Monitoring and control instruments
10. Automatic dispensers

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WEEE Directive Product Categories

• The WEEE Directive applies to the 10 product
  categories that fall into the following voltage
  ranges
• Up to 1,000 v AC
• Up to 1,500 v DC

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Main Requirements of the Directive

• The Directive requires arrangements to be made
  for
• Collection of EEE at end-of life
• Treatment of EEE at end-of-life
• Recovery and recycling of EEE
• Producer financing for obligations to the WEEE
  Directive
• Producer registration
• Product marking and provision of information

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Marking Obligations Information

• Information
• Producers required to provide information to
  assist with
• Reuse, recycling and recovery of EEE
• Applicable to EEE placed on the market after 13th
  August 2005

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Marking Obligations Information

• Marking Requirements
• EEE placed on the market after 13th August 2005
  must be marked with the crossed out wheeled bin
  symbol.
• Must identify the producer

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The Wheeled Bin Symbol

• The Directive refers to the CENELEC standard for
  product marking of EEE.
• EN 504192005
• The black bar signifies that the product was
  place on the market after the 13th August 2005.

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The EU WEEE Recast Directive 2012/19/EU

• WEEE 1 WEEE 2
• ?WEEE 1 the old Directive 2002/96/EC has
  applied to certain categories of EEE since 13
  August 2005
• ?WEEE 2 the text of a revised Directive was
  published in July 2012 and the new requirements
  applies from 14 February 2014

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WEEE Recast - Main Issues

• ?Scope
• ?New Member State collection target
• ?Higher recovery, reuse recycling targets
• ?Annex on Shipments

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Scope

• New Directive
• The original ten Categories for 6 years on a
  closed scope basis, (plus the addition of
  Photovoltaic Panels in Category 4).
• Then streamlined to six Categories on an open
  scope basis -
• Temperature Exchange Equipment Screens
  Monitors Lamps Large Equipment Small
  Equipment Small IT and telecommunication
  equipment

• old Directive
• Ten Categories
• Large household appliances
• Small household appliances
• IT Telecomms equipment
• Consumer equipment
• Lighting equipment
• Electrical Electronic Tools
• Toys, Leisure Sports equipment
• Medical Devices
• Monitoring Control Instruments
• Automatic Dispensers

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No change to the definition of EEE

• Unlike RoHS, no change or expansion to the
  definition of electrical and electronic equipment
  
• ?EEE means equipment which is dependent on
  electric currents or electromagnetic fields in
  order to work properly .etc

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New Member State Collection Target

• New Directive
• Before 2016, each Member State shall ensure that
  it achieves the target of 4kg per capita or the
  same amount of WEEE in weight as an average of
  the weight that was collected over the three
  preceding years
• After four years, a move from a minimum of 4kg
  per capita to 45 POTM basis
• After seven years, this target will change to
  either 65 POTM or 85 of WEEE Generated

• Old Directive
• 4kg on average per inhabitant per year of
  separately collected WEEE from private households

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Recovery, reuse recycling targets

• New Directive
• The introduction of 70 recovery and 50
  recycling for Category 8 immediately
• All targets to be increased by 5 after three
  years, with a new 80 recycling target for gas
  discharge lamps
• Within four years, the Commission will examine
  the case for a mandatory 5 reuse target to be
  shown separately from the recycling target level

• Old Directive
• 80 recovery and 75 recycling for Categories 1
  and 10
• 75 recovery and 65 recycling for Categories 3
  and 4
• 70 recovery and 50 recycling for Categories 2,
  5, 6, 7 and 9
• No targets for Category 8

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Annex on Shipments

• Introduction of minimum monitoring requirements
  for the shipment
• of WEEE/used EEE
• New Annex IV addresses widespread concerns over
  illegal exports
• Interface with Waste Shipment Regulations

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Main content

• The EU WEEE Directive
• China WEEE
• 3R assessment

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China WEEE

• Regulations on the Management of the Recovery and
• Treatment of Waste Electronic and Electrical
  Products
• Decree No.551 of the State Council of the
  People's Republic of China
• Promulgated on February 25, 2009 and came into
  force on January 1, 2011
• China WEEE is an administrative law, it is
  established by the State Council
• National Development and Reform Commission is
  responsible to draft it
• Totally five chapters, 35 Articles.

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promulgation of China WEEE The situation
that China does not have any regulations on waste
EE was ended Meet the requirements of
new situation, especially EU WEEE Directive
Push electronic and electrical enterprises to
pay attention to environment protection and
resource saving, it will be helpful to
sustainable development of EE industry It
require the government by law to regulate the
recover market of waste EE Help the
development of comprehensive using of waste EE
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• China WEEE established three legislative system
• main requirements of China WEEE
• progress of China WEEE

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China WEEE requires to establish three systems

• the first establish Catalogue management
  system for the recover and treatment of WEEE
• the second establish qualification license
  system of WEEE treatment facilities
• the third establish recover and treatment fund
  system for WEEE

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• China WEEE requirements
• Establish catalogue for the recover and
  treatment of WEEE WEEE treatment facilities
  should get qualification license related
  manufacturer, importer or agent of EEE should pay
  recover and treatment fund for WEEE.

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Progress of China WEEE (1)

• National Development and Reform Commission,
  Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,
  Ministry of Environmental Protection and etc.
  established the first batch of Catalogue, and it
  was issued by State Council.
• The first batch of Catalogue refrigerator,
  washing machine, air conditioner, TV, computer.
• Considering adding more products to the Catalogue.

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Progress of China WEEE (2)

• Currently, Ministry of Environmental Protection
  takes the lead in drafting ltGuidance for the
  qualification license of WEEE treatment
  facilities gt , and it has already been published
  officially.
• ltGuidancegt regulates conditions and procedures
  for facilities to enter this market who will
  engage in WEEE treatment .

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Progress of China WEEE (3)

• Ministry of Finance drafted ltManagement method
  for the collection and use of WEEE recover and
  treatment fundgt,
• and published on May 21,2012.
• this ltMethodgt regulates the colleting object,
  fees, management and dispensation of WEEE recover
  and treatment fund.

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Main content

• The EU WEEE Directive
• China WEEE
• 3R assessment

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IEC/TR 62635 ed1.0 publication date
2012-10-19 Title Guidelines for end-of-life
information provided by manufacturers and
recyclers and for recyclability rate calculation
of electrical and electronic equipment
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3R Definitions

• reuse
• operation by which a product, or a part thereof,
  having reached the end of one use-stage is used
  again for the same purpose for which it was
  conceived
• recycling
• any operation by which waste products are
  reprocessed into products, product parts,
  materials or substances whether for the original
  or other purposes
• recovery
• any operation by which waste serving a useful
  purpose by replacing other materials which would
  otherwise have been used to fulfill a particular
  function, or waste being prepared to fulfill that
  function, in the plant or in the wider economy

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Framework of the main definition covering end
of life treatment
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
  Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
This figure provides a synthesis of the main
definition covering end of life treatment
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definition and calculation of recyclability and
recoverability rate
recyclability rate ratio of recyclable product
mass to total product mass recoverability
rate ratio of recoverable products, product
parts, materials mass to total waste product mass
reprocessed
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
  Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
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example of disassembly scheme of cell phone
from a 3R Assessment Report
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
  Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
A B C D
E F G
C
C1 C2 C3
C4 C5
C6
Disassembly Tools Cross screwdriver \ Nipper \
Scissors
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example of disassembly scheme of cell phone
from CTTL 3R Assessment Report
I
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
  Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
I1 I2
I3 I4
I5 I6
J
J3
J1 J2
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example of calculation of recyclability and
recoverability rate of cell phone from CTTL 3R
Assessment Report
Sample name     Recycling category Recycling category IT and telecommunications equipment IT and telecommunications equipment
Model     Total weight (mEEE) Total weight (mEEE) 225.29 g 225.29 g
  No. of parts mass (g) Recycling rate () Recyclable mass (g) Recovery rate () Recoverable mass (g)
Reusable parts -- -- -- -- -- --
Reusable parts -- -- -- -- -- --
Parts for selective treatment C1 4.36 90 3.93 91 3.97
Parts for selective treatment -- -- -- -- -- --
Parts for selective treatment -- -- -- -- -- --
Parts for selective treatment -- -- -- -- -- --
Parts with single recyclable material A 0.72 95 0.69 95 0.69
Parts with single recyclable material -- -- -- -- -- --
Metal separation C2 27.92 94 26.25 94 26.25
Metal separation -- -- -- -- -- --
Metal separation -- -- -- -- -- --
Non-metal separation F1 28.10 94 26.42 95 26.70
Non-metal separation -- -- -- -- -- --
Non-metal separation -- -- -- -- -- --
Parts difficult to process C6 0.73 85 0.62 85 0.62
Parts difficult to process -- -- -- -- -- --
Result       165.87   180.26
Result Recyclability rate Rrcy 73.6  73.6  73.6  73.6  73.6 
Result Recoverability rate Rrcv 80.0  80.0  80.0  80.0  80.0 
Treatment Treatment Treatment Treatment
Recovery Recovery Recovery       Residue disposal
Recycling Recycling     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
  Reuse of waste products and waste product parts   Material recovery     Energy recovery       Residue disposal
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