Summary
Domestic electrical waste is treated slightly differently. For historic WEEE the main collection point is likely to be councils' civic amenity sites. Councils might not offer a solution for service engineers trying to dispose of waste. Adrian Harding, Environment Agency policy officer, says: "A lot of councils either are not able to, or refuse to, take commercial waste.
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The End of the Throwaway Culture?
The days when a service engineer could sling a piece of irreparable electrical equipment in a skip or flog it off to his mates down the pub are numbered.
The blame lies with the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations that were introduced at the beginning of this year. The regulations, based on a European Union directive, make producers responsible for either recycling or ethically disposing of the goods they manufacture. They have a major knock-on effect on service eng...See the full content of this document
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