Electronics
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Envirowise can help your company to cut manufacturing costs, reduce your environmental impact and increase your market share. We can also help you comply with new legislation.
Legislation
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) aims to minimise the impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment, by increasing re-use and recycling and reducing the amount of WEEE going to landfill. It seeks to achieve this by making producers responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment, and by obliging distributors to allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.
The UK Regulations implementing the WEEE Directive were laid before Parliament on 12 December 2006 and enter into force on 2 January 2007. Non-Statutory Guidance has now been published, please follow the below link for the full document
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file41165.pdf
Further information is available on the BERR website.
The UK's Restriction Of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Legislation has now been published. Further details:
The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive aims to minimise the environmental impact of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) by reducing the quantities of four heavy metals and two brominated flame retardants which it may contain.
Products placed on the EU market on or after 1 July 2006 may not contain more than the specified limits of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).
There are a number of exempted applications for these substances, some of which have been agreed since the UK laid the RoHS Regulations before Parliament. The UK Regulations will be revised to reflect these new exemptions in due course.
The BERR (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) is the UK lead for the RoHS Directive, being responsible for EU negotiations and UK implementation and has now published Guidance Documents. Please follow the below link for the full document
www.berr.gov.uk/files/file40576.pdf
Cleaner Design
Cleaner design helps companies benefit both from compliance with legislation, and the inherent economic, environmental and marketing opportunities. Envirowise offers a number of services including case studies, good practice guides and designtrack visits*.
designtrack is a free confidential consultation by a design specialist, which aims to help companies become aware of and implement cleaner design into their business.
Arrange a designtrack visit
Restricted materials list
The restricted materials database contains a list of restricted materials, links for further sources of information and suggests alternative materials that meet new legislative requirements.
Download the list
* Please note that different services are available in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - please contact our Advice Line on 0800 585 794 for more information on whether you are eligible for a site visit.
