Waste Electrical

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Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
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• 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.

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• 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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Categories of EEE covered as in Annex 1A

• Large house hold appliances
• Small household appliances
• IT Telecommunications equipment
• Consumer equipment
• Lighting equipment
• Electrical Electronic Tools ( With exception to
  large scale stationary Industrial Tools)
• Toys leisure and sports equipment
• Medical Devices ( with exception of all implanted
  and infected products)
• Monitoring control instruments
• Automatic dispensers

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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

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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