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WEEE

A leading WEEE compliance scheme

Compliance experts

With extensive knowledge, a unique insight into the compliance sector and a deep understanding of the producer responsibility and environmental compliance regulations, our compliance consultants are well placed to advise you on your business’ responsibilities and requirements. We will assume legal responsibility for your organisation to comply with WEEE legislation both in the UK and across Europe.

Advanced WEEE recycling processes

Compliance regulations have been brought into effect to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and to encourage reusing, as much as recycling, waste. Recycling Lives Services operate one of the UK’s largest WEEE Compliance Schemes and our experts will guide you through whether your business needs to meet producer responsibility obligations, or to implement a distributor take back scheme, or both. We also provide value add services such as social value integration and transparent reporting and pricing models.

Overview of regulations

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations (2013) came into law in 2014, superseding the 2006 WEEE regulations.

The aim of this WEEE legislation is to reduce the tonnage of waste going to landfill by setting targets for the collection, recovery and recycling of WEEE. Producers of EEE are made accountable to meet these targets, by taking responsibility for their products when they reach the end of their working life. All businesses who place EEE on the UK market for the first time, either by importing, manufacturing, rebranding or distance selling are considered producers under the WEEE directive.

The WEEE regulations for business dictate that producers must:

Register with a WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS), like Recycling Lives Compliance Services, or the Environment Agency directly

Minimise the waste arising from their EEE and promote reuse

Declare the tonnage of EEE they put onto the UK market

Facilitate the collection and appropriate disposal of end-of-life waste

Ensure that all EEE products are correctly labelled

About our scheme

Getting it right first time saves our customer’s significant cost. As industry experts in compliance, Recycling Lives Services works with producers and distributors, assuming our client’s legal responsibility for complying with regulations and fulfilling duty-of-care obligations.

Our schemes advantages include:

Our size, scale and industry contacts make us agile and responsive to clients’ needs

Assuming legal responsibility for complying with regulations for producers and distributors

Sourcing and financing collections nationwide to generate evidence

Opportunities to process and recycle waste streams within prisons to support offender rehabilitation

Unique partnership between Compliance scheme and an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility

Transparent approach to funding and securing collection and treatment partners

Dedicated account managers; experts in WEEE regulations for business

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British Gas

“Our relationship with Recycling Lives spans more than 6 years starting with our first load in 2016.

We send scrap and waste material including copper, brass, ferrous metal and more they also handle our hazardous waste such as oil and aerosols. We honestly like everything about Recycling Lives, their people are dedicated to what they do, work hard and are exceptionally friendly to deal with. Their attitude to work and charity is inspirational. Long may our partnership continue.”

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British Telecom

“BT and Recycling Lives have a long established relationship stretching back over 15 years.

We were looking to ensure we met and exceeded all of our environmental and waste targets and goals. To enable us to achieve this, we needed to work with the right partners that carry the same values and provide us with solutions we need in an ever change environment. Recycling Lives have continuously demonstrated their ability to deliver, always willing to go that extra mile when needed, and have built a trust within BT that our waste is in safe hands. We will continue to work with Recycling Lives in the future.”

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