Guidance

WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance

How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

From:
Environment Agency
Published
6 May 2014
Last updated
22 April 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): evidence and national protocols guidance

Ref: LIT 7612

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WEEE: recovery and recycling targets flow chart

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Template for AATF reporting recycling: recovery rates

Ref: LIT 10353

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Details

This guidance for WEEE producer compliance schemes, approved authorised treatment facilities and approved exporters includes the:

  • evidence and national protocols guidance
  • WEEE recovery and recycling targets flow chart
  • actual recovery and recycling rate template

Updates to this page

Published 6 May 2014
Last updated 22 April 2024 + show all updates

  1. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): evidence and national protocols guidance. Sections 1, 5, 6 and 7 updated to reflect changes to WEEE online.

  2. WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance, section 1 changed 'WEEE Settlement Centre' to 'WEEE Online'.

  3. Replaced the Excel file 'Template for AATF reporting recycling: recovery rates' file with an Open Document Spreadsheet.

  4. We have added information to clarify when an AATF and AE can issue evidence and the WEEE they can issue it on. We have updated the SMW and LDA protocols with the 2020 percentages. We have corrected the Northern Ireland contact details.

  5. Included guidance on how to complete the recovery and recycling rate template within the WEEE evidence and national protocols html document.

  6. A new template and guidance on how to complete it for AATFs to report on the actual annual WEEE recycling and recovery rates.

  7. Updated to include a link to guidance on how to correctly identify business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) EEE and WEEE.

  8. First published.

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