WEEE DIRECTIVE.
What is WEEE?
The waste Electrical and Electronic or WEEE is a European Directive that has been adapted for use in the UK. The regulations have been introduced to help reduce teh amount of electrical equipment going to landfill and to promote the recycling of the items as best possible. The Directive came into effect on July 1st 2007.
We are also willing to collect and recycle your old appliance on a like for like basis within Northern Ireland provided that your appliance is disconnected, empty and outsidce your property.
What we are doing.
- We have joined a national scheme operated by Valpak called The Distributor Take-Back Scheme, or DTS. Our contributions to this scheme have helped fund a national network of WEEE collection centres to ensure more WEEE is recycled.
- As part of our contribution we help fund recycle-more, a one-stop recycling information centre. Recycle more is an interactive website that will provide you with fun and useful information on how to be more environmentally friendly in your everyday activities. It will also provide details on your nearest recylce point.
- As an Energy Saving Trust accredited retailer we've taken matters into our own hands and trained our staff to actively demonstrate to customers teh benefits of a more efficient appliance.
What can you do?
- You can help by purchasing more efficient appliances and asking at the time of purchase what considerations the manufacturer has taken to make as much of the appliance as recyclable as possible. It is pressure like this that manufactures will listen to.
- Don't put electrical equipment or any device with this symbol into the normal refuse syste.. Log on istead to www.recycle-more.co.uk
