WEEE Recovery Responsibilities

The UK Waste Electrical Equipments Regulations are one of a series of ‘producer responsibility' regulations, which makes producers financially responsible for the recycling and recovery of their products at end of life. The WEEE regulations aim to decrease the strain that WEEE has on the environment by increasing the re-use and recycling of WEEE products and reducing landfill. This is achieved by a system where producers, distributors and the general public contribute to its implementation.

All Electronic and Electrical Equipment (EEE) placed onto the market from 1st July 2007, must be marked with this symbol to indicate that it is covered by the WEEE Directive, the provisions of which require that producers or manufacturers of EEE become liable to pay for take-back treatment and recycling of end of life equipment (WEEE).