What is WEEE and Why it’s Important

The WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directives, which is a national law proposed from EU Parliament to tackle with the Electronic Waste. This also comes together with another rule RoHS Directive and together both became the European law in February 2003 and since then it has got minor changes because it has failed to overcome some targets. The WEEE directive is a set of rules which will see recycling and complete the recovering target for all type of electrical machinery with the rate of 4 KG per person every year recovered for recycling in 2009. Together the WEEE and RoHS put some responsibility on worldwide manufactures as the Material and content them using to make new electronics. The symbol accepted by EU Council to present the law is a crossed Wheelie bin with a black line below the symbol. The line indicates that the devices are launched in the market after 2005, when it came into picture and good without line are in between 2002 and 2005.

Circuit Assembly says“The directive imposes the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment on the manufacturers or distributors of such equipment. It requires that those companies establish an infrastructure for collecting WEEE, in such a way that "Users of electrical and electronic equipment from private households should have the possibility of returning WEEE at least free of charge". The directive saw the formation of national "producer compliance schemes", into which manufacturers and distributors paid an annual fee for the collection and recycling of associated waste electronics from household waste recycling centers.”

The rule has covered almost all kinds of categories, the first one’s are historic and non historic because it applied on the goods in the market in prior to 2005 and it forces them to recycle all those equipments properly and also bear the expenses if needed.