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Premises Management : WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

If you use electrical and electronic equipment you must store, collect, treat, recycle and dispose of WEEE separately from your other waste.   You must also obtain and keep proof that your WEEE was given to a waste management company, and was treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound way.

There are requirments for

  • users
  • producers and
  • distributors

As a business, you have a duty to ensure that any waste you produce is handled safely and in accordance with the law.  This is the 'Duty of Care' and it applies to anyone who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste from business or industry or acts as a waste broker in this respect.

You must make sure that anyone that you pass your waste on to, such as a waste contractor, scrap metal merchant, recycler, local council or skip hire company, is authorised to take it.  If you don't, and your waste is illegally disposed of, you could be held responsible.

The Duty of Care has no time limit, and extends until the waste has either been finally and properly disposed of or fully recovered.

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