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Government Delays IT Recycling Directive
News The Recycling Electrical Producers Industry Consortium (REPIC), whose members include Sony, Toshiba and LG Electronics claimed that pushing back WEEE compliance would allow for a fairer version of the law to be enacted in the UK.
[March 29, 2005, 16:25]
Recycling Directive Leads To Price Hikes
News The EU Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive became law in Ireland on Saturday and was immediately followed by "disproportionate" price increases, according to Ireland's opposition party.
[August 15, 2005, 17:25]
Hazardous Tech Threatens Recycling Workers
News The Waste and Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive was due to be enacted into UK legislation in August 2005 but has now been delayed until at least July 2006. The introduction of the WEEE directive in Ireland has allegedly led to...
[August 18, 2005, 18:15]
Dell Tackles IT Waste In Recycling Push
News But WEEE will not come into effect until August 2005 and the first targets for collection, recycling and recovery are in 2008. Nathan explained the new programme was launched partly in response to the new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment...
[September 27, 2004, 16:30]
Real-life Iron Giant Invades IT Recycling Debate
News Unveiled on Friday at a special event at the GLA headquarters on south bank of the Thames, the statue is designed to publicise the European directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which aims to make vendors and end-users of...
[April 29, 2005, 12:45]
Where Is The WEEE?
Blog A recent six-month project with recycling consultancy firm London Remade calculated the levels of business-to-business Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) generated in London each year. The final results showed that more than 890,000...
[April 14, 2008, 16:03]
Tech Recycling Law Finally Arrives
News The EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive is expected to drive up the costs of IT and other tech hardware, as manufacturers are forced to cover the cost of recovering and recycling the items.
[January 2, 2007, 12:44]
Recycling Legislation Finally Enforced
News Under WEEE, manufacturers and retailers of technology will be forced to pay a percentage of the total recycling costs of the equipment — depending on how much they sell or produce. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive was...
[July 2, 2007, 17:50]
Dell: IT Industry Slow To Action Over Recycling
News Has the WEEE directive had a big influence on your recycling initiatives or would Dell have taken this approach without legislative pressure? ZDNet UK spoke with the company’s global sustainable business director Pat Nathan about the potential...
[September 28, 2004, 11:30]
IT Budgets To Foot Recycling Bill
News But WEEE will not come into affect until August 2005 and the first targets for collection, recycling and recovery are in 2008. The arrival of the WEEE Directive means business now have to consider recycling sooner rather than later, and we are...
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
IT Managers Get Clarification On Recycling Duties
News As such, larger organisations may find it cheaper to set up and pay for their own recycling processes, or may already have such as system in place, rather than paying whatever premium their supplier chooses to impose to cover the costs of...
[January 24, 2007, 16:04]
Recycling Special Report: A Way Forward
News A key stimulus there comes from the European Union, which through its parliamentary arm is working to pull various existing and proposed national programs into a united front through legislation known as the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic...
[June 18, 2001, 14:02]
Government Warning Over Hazardous IT Waste
News The new waste standards come just ahead of European regulation around the recycling of Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). The WEEE directive was due to be incorporated into UK law in August this year but in an open letter released in...
[June 24, 2005, 15:30]
Toxic Tech Threatening Developing World
News Unlike the previous recycling programme, there are no calculations or negotiations regarding the volume and type of products being returned," said Kirstie McIntyre, WEEE programme manager, in a statement.
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
Dell Launches Green Offensive In Emerald Isle
News The event coincides with increased attention given to technology recycling ahead of the introduction of the European Waste and Electrical and Equipment (WEEE) directive. But WEEE will not come into affect until August 2005 and the first targets for...
[September 8, 2004, 15:20]
Chinese Will Pay Most For Green PCs
News WEEE aims to reduce the impact of waste technology by forcing manufacturers to pay for collection and recycling schemes. Despite the announcement of the successful implementation of ROHS, the UK has repeatedly failed to implement the Waste...
[June 28, 2006, 17:25]
Y2K Legacy Creates PC-disposal Headache
News The EU Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive will become law in the UK from August 2004 - although it won't be properly enforced till 2006. All a spokesperson for the vendor would say is that WEEE would affect different...
[May 28, 2004, 16:35]
Worry Not
Talkback The WEEE directive is a crock. Again because each package contains some parts eligible for WEEE and some items not. So the existing weight, for Customs purposes, is wrong for WEEE purposes, so it all had to be done again.
[July 27, 2007, 12:16]
UK Fails To Implement Recycling Directive
News The UK has yet to introduce the Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive and is consulting on the matter. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström said she was disappointed by the number of countries who hadn't made the WEEE...
[August 18, 2004, 17:05]
BCS Warns Of Environmental Impact Of Vista Upgrade
News As well as the impact of Vista on upgrade cycles, the BCS claims that upcoming legislation such as the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive will also impact businesses' approach to IT disposal and recycling.
[December 7, 2006, 15:34]
