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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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. The WEEE directive, a draft regulation of which is expected on 14 June, will have the...
[May 28, 2004, 16:35]
Computer Aid: New Life For Old IT
Talkback According to the WEEE Directive (and this article is about Recycling and WEEE) - It is illegal to send Electronic Waste (WEEE) to countries where such equipment can not be recycled in the same way it would be recycled within the EU.
[February 17, 2005, 23:40]
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]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment Under WEEE, when EU customers buy new TANDBERG equipment, they can send their old equipment for recycling. I'm surprised to hear that TANDBERG UK folks you met were not able to convince you on the sustainable manufacturing principles of TANDBERG.of...
[May 31, 2007, 14:33]
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]
IT Budgets To Foot Recycling Bill
News The arrival of the WEEE Directive means business now have to consider recycling sooner rather than later, and we are looking to the public sector to take a lead and adopt a socially responsible policy with regards to redundant equipment," said the...
[August 5, 2004, 14:15]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Cutting Down On E-waste And Making WEEE Work
Blog Under the Producer Pays principle of the WEEE directive, producers of electrical equipment are responsible for funding the end of life recycling of equipment within the European Union, but no such legislation exists for the millions of electronic...
[September 24, 2008, 13:45]
Brace Yourself For Green Legislation
Leader That's the sound of hardware companies such as Dell, HP and IBM circling their wagons ahead of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), due to be introduced and enforced over the next two years.
[September 9, 2004, 13:05]
