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Business minister Matthew Hancock has welcomed the news that the UK met its WEEE collection target for 2014. The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) set a target to collect a total of 490,000 tonnes of WEEE in 2014; a target which was met with 491,007 tonnes having been collected across the year. 2014…
The Department for Business has outlined how producers and recyclers should determine whether electrical goods can be considered ‘household’ and ‘consumer’ WEEE at the end of life. Definitions of what can be considered business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) were amended in October after the UK’s classification of household and business WEEE…
Lobbying groups and trade associations are continuing to pressure political parties over their waste and environment policies ahead of the General Election. However, little has been said by any part yet of great significance with regard to future policies, apart from the Labour Party stepping back from a plan to require all local authorities to…
An East London waste firm director has received a suspended prison sentence – after 11 attempts to illegally ship electrical and electronic waste to Ghana. Moses Appiah, sole director of Appiahdeep Company Ltd in Rainham, was sentenced at Barkingside Magistrates Court pleading guilty to 11 offences of transporting hazardous waste. The company was also fined…
England’s minister for recycling has confirmed figures which show how recycling at council level is levelling off. Data, recently issued in Parliament by the minister, Dan Rogerson, shows that for waste collected by councils or their contractors, increases in the recycling rate have slowed. There has been just a 4.1% rise since the financial year…
Defra has unveiled proposals to change the way portable batteries are classified, in order to address a discrepancy that has ‘skewed’ progress towards battery recycling targets in the UK, according to battery recyclers. The plans put forward by the Department last week (January 26) will see any batteries placed onto the market weighing 4kg or…
The Department for Business (BIS) has confirmed that it is to go ahead with plans to implement a ‘compliance fee’ under the WEEE regulations, which compliance schemes will have to pay if they have missed their collection targets in 2014. Schemes are yet to learn the exact amount that they will be required to pay…
We are pleased to announce the recent commissioning of ‘Olga’ our high tech battery sorting machine recently purchased from Refind in Sweden. Olga has an eye for detail and using a very sophisticated camera system compares images of passing batteries to a database of images and ejects batteries into the correct container using compressed air…
Back in 2008 the EU introduced new regulations on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Regulations introduced in 2006. These were in conjunction with the REACH Regulations on the testing and efficacy of all chemicals produced in and imported into the EU. The key elements include; – Requirements to…
The WasteCare Group has recently acquired a majority stake in Appliance Care Recycling. Bringing the two together will certainly create the largest electrical appliance reuse business in the UK, but more importantly we believe that we have created a sustainable and profitable business. Initially we seek to re-manufacture upwards of 1,500 appliances a week, focusing on…
