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Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
(WEEE)
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive
• Work started in the year 1994
• To device a strategy for reducing the impact of electrical equipment
on environment at end-of-life.
• WEEE represents 4 % of municipal waste stream in EU & is growing
at 16-28 % every five years.
• WEEE contains a number of hazardous substances including heavy
metals & organic pollutants.
• This is posing human health & environmental risk because they are
not adequately treated during current waste management process.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive
Aims to,
• Reduce Electrical & Electronic equipment waste
• Increase reuse, recycling & recovery
• Improve environmental performance of all the operators involved in
life cycle of electrical & electronic equipment, particularly those
involved in WEEE treatment.
Covers wide range of EEE falling with in voltage range up to 1000VAC
& 1500VDC
Such equipment is identified in 10 categories with Reuse, recycle &
recovery targets set out.
Comes into effect on 13th Aug 2005
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Directive reference : 2002/96/EC
• Member states should encourage the design & production of
EEE which take into account & facilitate dismantling & recovery,
in particular, the reuse & recycling of WEEE, their components &
materials.
• Producers should not prevent, through specific design
features or manufacturing processes, WEEE from being reused,
unless such specific design features or manufacturing
processes present overriding advantages.
(Clause 14)
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Directive reference : 2002/96/EC contd ….
• Separate collection is the precondition to ensure specific
treatment & recycling of WEEE & is necessary to achieve the
chosen level of protection of human health & environment.
• Member states should adopt appropriate measures to
minimise the disposal of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste &
achieve a high level of separate collection of WEEE.
• Consumers have to actively contribute to success of such
collection & should be encouraged to return WEEE. For this
purpose convenient facilities should be set up for the return
of WEEE
Clause 15, 16
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Directive reference : 2002/96/EC contd ….
• Producers should finance collection from collection facilities &
the treatment, recovery & disposal of WEEE.
• In order to give maximum effect to the concept of producer
responsibility, each producer should be responsible for
financing the management of waster from his own products.
• For a transitional period, producers should be allowed to
show purchasers on a voluntary basis at the time of sale of
new products, the cost of collecting, treating & disposing.
Clause 15, 16
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Directive reference : 2002/96/EC contd ….
• Information on component & material identification to be
provided by producers is important to facilitate the
management, & in particular the treatment & recovery recycling
of WEE
• Member states shall take the necessary measures to ensure
that producers provide reuse & treatment information for each
type of new EEE put on the market, with in 1 year after the
equipment is put on the market.
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Directive reference : 2002/96/EC contd ….
• Member states shall ensure that any product of an EEE put on
the market after 13th August 2005, is clearly identified by a
mark on the appliance.
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Categories of EEE covered as in Annex 1A
1. Large house hold appliances
2. Small household appliances
3. IT & Telecommunications equipment
4. Consumer equipment
5. Lighting equipment
6. Electrical & Electronic Tools ( With exception to large scale stationary
Industrial Tools)
7. Toys leisure and sports equipment
8. Medical Devices ( with exception of all implanted and infected products)
9. Monitoring & control instruments
10. Automatic dispensers
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Recovery targets fixed . Target date : 31 Dec 2006
For WEEE falling under categories 1 & 10 of Annex 1A
• Rate of recovery shall be increased to a minimum 80 % by an
average wt. Per appliance and
• Component, material & substance reuse and recycling shall be
increased to minimum of 75% by an average wt. per appliance.
For WEEE falling under categories 3 & 4,
• Rate of recovery shall be increased to minimum 75% by an
average wt. Per appliance and
• Component, material & substance reuse and recycling shall be
increased to minimum of 65% by an average wt. per appliance
Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Recovery targets contd….
For WEEE falling under categories 2,5,6,7 & 9,
• Rate of recovery shall be increased to a minimum 70 % by an
average wt. Per appliance and
• Component, material & substance reuse and recycling shall be
increased to minimum of 50% by an average wt. per appliance.
For WEEE falling under category 8,
• Rate of recovery shall established by 31st Dec 2008