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WEEE Producer Responsibility in the UK – Best Practice
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Producer Responsibility waste streams ‘Problematic’ waste stream Million Tonnes UK No. of producers Directive Y/N? Date first UK PR regs introduced Packaging105,300YMarch 1997 ELV2 (vehicles)25YMarch 2005 WEEE25,000YDecember 2006 Batteries0.120350YMay 2009
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Key UK players - Regulation Government Regulators of producers Environment agency – England and Wales SEPA – Scotland NIEA – Northern Ireland Regulator of distributors Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA)
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UK Implementation WEEE Directive the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations 2006 - UK SI.2006 No. 3289 - cover product marking, take-back and producer obligations, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Waste Management Licensing) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006 SI. 2006 No.3315 - cover treatment and site licensing in England and Wales
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UK WEEE system UK implemented a Collective Producer Responsibility system: producers are collectively responsible for recovery of separately collected WEEE UK not yet implemented system of Individual Producer Responsibility, where each producer shall be responsible for financing recovery of WEEE arising from their own products
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Overview of the UK regulations Producers to discharge financial obligations for treatment, recovery and recycling through producer compliance schemes (PCS) Retailers to either take-back WEEE in store or join the Distributor Take-back Scheme (DTS) DTS to make available network of Designated Collection Facilities (DCFs) for PCS to collect WEEE from PCS to collect WEEE arising at DCFs and either send this for reuse as whole appliance, or ensure it is treated and recycled to target levels PCS to provide evidence of appropriate treatment and recycling to us
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WEEE from private households Producer Producer Compliance Scheme DCF AATF Reprocessor
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WEEE from private households Finance costs for producers based on a market share approach They are liable for a percentage of the WEEE arising in each category, based on the amount of EEE they place on the market Thus if a producer places 2% of Cat 1 products on the market, they are liable for 2% of ALL Cat 1 WEEE that is separately collected
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UK – additional ‘sub’ categories UK split out: Display equipment (split from Cat 3 and 4) Cooling appliances (split from Cat 1) Gas discharge lamps (split from Cat 5) Created 3 additional categories based on above Rationale is to ensure financing treatment and recovery of hazardous WEEE is undertaken by producers placing that EEE on the market
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UK – additional ‘sub’ categories Result is: producers placing Cat 1 EEE on the market will not attract costs of treating cooling appliances producers placing Cat 3 and 4 not liable for costs of treating hazardous display equipment
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UK WEEE collection rates Jan – June 2009 (6months) WEEE from private households 221,000 tonnes ( ~440,000 for year) Non Household WEEE 8,105 tonnes ( ~16,000 for year)
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WEEE collection rates WEEE from private households Significant collection rates in 3 categories Large household70,000 tonnes Display equipment59,000 tonnes Cooling equipment51,000 tonnes
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WEEE from private households Producer Producer Compliance Scheme DCF AATF Reprocessor Evidence Environment Agency Declaration of Compliance
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WEEE from private households 5,000 30+ ~1,100 ~70220 Producer Producer Compliance Scheme DCF A/ATF Reprocessor
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Who is a ‘Producer’? this legislation is about making ‘Producers’ of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) collectively responsible for those products when they become waste Producers are people who: import EEE on a professional basis make and sell EEE under their own brand resell EEE under their own brand (only) for the WEEE Regulations, it’s the UK market that matters
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Producer Compliance Schemes 30+ producer compliance schemes (PCS) in the UK Producers must join a compliance scheme Compliance schemes register producer with relevant Environment Agency Failure of a producer to join a scheme and become registered is a criminal offence Created a competitive market place for securing compliance. Competition will keep compliance costs down
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Designated Collection Facilities (DCFs) Sites where WEEE will be separately collected Vast majority are Civic Amenity sites (household waste bring sites run by Local Authorities / Municipalities) Some private DCFs. Typically Distributor hubs where WEEE from ‘take-back’ is collated / bulked up
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AATS Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities Will have 2 permits First is to authorise to treat waste (WEEE) Second is to enable them to issue ‘evidence’ that WEEE has been treated & recovered Typically they break the WEEE down into constituent materials (metals, plastics, glass etc) WEEE materials then sent to recovery site (reprocessor) for recycling
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Reprocessors Receive WEEE materials arsing from treatment activities Reprocessors are UK based and worldwide All exports must pass through an approved exporter All exports must comply with Waste Shipment Regulations
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Costs £2 Million in registration fees Funds the regulator Costs to finance the treatment of the WEEE Commercial contracts between compliance schemes and treatment facilities Costs not publicly available
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Costs – Registration fees No de-minimus – all producers must register Business placing 1 EEE product on the market is deemed to be a producer Tiered registration fees £30below VAT threshold £220VAT to £1M turnover £445Above £1M turnover
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WEEE Scope Annex 1 and 2 provide examples of EEE, but we have had to deal with numerous queries Produced guidance on what is in scope Provide advice and guidance to industry
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Where are we now? System settling down Seeing improving rates of collection New collection systems being established Still have leakage of WEEE from the system Issues with illegal exports of WEEE – principally whole WEEE exported as used EEE
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