The Challenges of WEEE at University of Glasgow

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The Challenges of WEEE at University of Glasgow

• Ann Galbraith
• 11 July 2007

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The key issues

• The scale of the challenge
• Awareness understanding
• Purchasing aspects
• Legal requirements
• Administrative management issues
• Asset tracking
• Record keeping
• Disposal

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The challenge at Glasgow

• The number of people involved
• The number of departments and budgets
• The scale of expenditure/number of items

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The challenge at Glasgow

• Geographical/physical issues
• The culture
• The range of activities

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Step 1 - Addressing awareness understanding

• Widespread direction to EAUC guidance
• Purchasing
• Purchasers supplied with standard phrases
  templates for ordering/tendering
• Framework agreements will take account
• Widespread advertisement of like-for-like
  obligations

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Step 1 - Addressing awareness understanding

• Legal requirements
• Duty of Care training
• Selection and audit of contractors for disposal
• Encourage use of existing approved contractors

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Step 2 - Addressing administrative management
issues

• Encourage linking to PAT and assets register
  databases.
• Utilise Agresso financial records
• Educate departments on retention of Transfer
  Notes. Periodic audit of departments.

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Step 3 Addressing Disposal

• Uplifts from each department and building
• Environmental and sustainability issues a high
  priority. The issue of charities
• Costs associated with these small uncoordinated
  uplifts

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Step 3 Addressing Disposal

• Currently have 2 approved suppliers for disposal
  of IT equipment and 1 for fridges
• Proposing to continue with this system for IT and
  extend to much of other WEEE
• Proposing to continue with existing system for
  fridge disposal and add domestic WEEE

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Step 3 Addressing Disposal

• Disposal of highly specialist equipment on a case
  by case basis initially
• Review disposal quantities and costs after 18
  months
• Tender for framework agreement for disposals

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Considerations for the future

• At what point will the disposal of non-like for
  like historic WEEE tail off?
• For some items/end users is producer
  responsibility more trouble than its worth?