WEEE: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
What is it?
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive came into force in January 2007 and aims to both reduce the amount of WEEE being produced and encourage everyone to reuse, recycle and recover it. The WEEE Directive also aims to improve the environmental performance of businesses that manufacture, supply, use, recycle and recover electrical and electronic equipment.
If you are an importer, rebrander or manufacturer of new electrical or electronic equipment then it’s likely that you will need to comply with the UK’s WEEE Regulations, which in part implement the WEEE Directive. If you do need to comply, then you must register on a producer compliance scheme.
You may also have obligations under the WEEE Regulations if you are a business with electrical/electronic equipment to dispose of, or if you sell electrical or electronic equipment.
Our role is to provide information and advice on complying with the WEEE Regulations to producers of Electrical or Electronic Equipment (EEE) and the waste management industry. However, if you don’t fall into one of these two categories you can find more information on WEEE below.
Find out more about your WEEE responsibilities
- Importers, rebranders and manufacturers: check if you need to comply
- Operators of producer compliance schemes
- Waste Management Industry: your responsibilities
- Retailers: what you need to know if you sell EEE
- Business users of EEE: your responsibilities
- Householders: how the regulations affect you
- Local Authorities: what you need to know
- Our role in enforcing the WEEE Regulations
- Public register of WEEE producers
- More information about WEEE
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Call our National Customer Care Centre on 08708 506 506, or contact the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) on 020 7215 5000 for information on the WEEE Regulations.
