WEEE (Computer) recycling toolkit
IT-Green is a (Computer / telecoms recycling) (WEEE compliant) recycling company, covering the whole of the UK. It currently operates with a view to provding UK businesses with a safe (licenced and trackable) and secure (certified confidential waste destruction) method of disposing of their IT (e-waste) hardware. Directors anticipate Authorised Treatment Facility status (ATF) by Oct 2008 and AATF (Approved Authorised treatment facility) by Jan 2009. If you're a manufacturer of eee, you need the latter (through a PCS- Producer compliance scheme). If you are a personal user (member of the general public) wanting to recycle your hardware, you can drop it off with us (in Cambridge) or search for a DCF (Designated collection facility)
Thursday 21 August 2008, 2:13 PM
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
WEEE reprocessors have attractedd large investments and a number of them are quite literally finding there's no WEEE to process. With infrastructure investments heading into seven figures, they're finding that there's no recouping their investments.
The biggest issue is the waste stream itself. In addition to a lack of waste comming from the consumer via local authorities and over to the processing plants, many have not been able to drum up the trade needed to support such huge investments.
There's plenty of WEEE out there- the fact of the matter is, the investment is top heavy- in the processing plants, with next to no investment in infrastructure for dealing with the small, numerous waste streams. A good analogy is a River, which starts in loads of trubitarys.
