Campaign aims to reduce and reuse Europe’s 2.5 million tonnes of plastic appearing in...
A project is calling for consumers to demand electronic and electrical products be made with recycled plastic, and for manufacturers to redesign products to both improve recyclability and integrate recycled plastics in new products
UK households still stockpiling old gadgets, says Royal Society of Chemistry survey
UK households are continuing to stockpile electronic devices and failing to recycle them, it seems, with early August seeing the publication of the results...
Online parts retailer releases survey on consumer e-waste negligence, and launches appliance repair initiative
A survey of 5,000 UK householders has found that the majority of Brits don’t attempt to fix perfectly repairable appliances – creating thousands...
The net is closing for online non-compliance with legislation affecting recovery of electrical products
A new EU regulation means that online fulfilment houses will be required to take responsibility for compliance documentation, if there is no appointed...
Critical raw material closed loop recovery project closes with release of trial learnings
Project exploring ways of boosting recovery of critical raw materials from household WEEE concluded on 29 March
Finnish innovation boosts battery recycling rate to over 80%
Electrification will rapidly increase the need for batteries. A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum claims to make over 80% of the...
Survey uncovers a generation gap when it comes to selling and recycling electrical items
UK homeowners aged between 16 and 29 are less likely than those over 60 to recycle electrical items that are either broken or in good working order, preferring instead to sell them online, according to a survey by REPIC
Changes coming in 2019
The WEEE system is changing in 2019. Nigel Harvey, Chief Executive of lamp recycling specialist Recolight provides an overview
More product coming into scope
From 2019,...
A second life for critical raw materials: February conference preview
Free conference for businesses, funding bodies and research organisations with an interest in the recovery of critical raw materials
Booking is now open for a...
“Green Tuesday” anyone? Website calls for new festive tradition to encourage recycling
Independent mobile phone comparison site, www.compareandrecycle.co.uk, is calling for a new festive tradition, 'Green Tuesday' to encourage people to recycle the old tech they...
Speaker line-up and details announced for IERC 2019 event, in Salzburg
Over 500 delegates are expected to gather in Salzburg in January for the International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC) 2019.
Keynote speakers will include: Paul E....
Chinese delegates visit UK WEEE recycling facility to share best practice
Delegates of the Hubei Provincial Environmental Protection Department in China met with British waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling experts at The Electrical...
Liverpool-based white goods reuse scheme celebrates successful start
Liverpool-based charity CREATE UK says it is celebrating a successful first eight months of its white goods reuse scheme, which aims to rescue old...
UK electrical retailer runs battery collection service in October
Throughout October, Currys PCWorld home installation teams will be offering to take away customers’ used household batteries for recycling when they deliver and install...
Free riders bypass WEEE duties, but is it time to simplify legislation?
A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in August called upon government’s to tackle the problem of “online free riding”
Firm launches collaborative service for end-of-life batteries
Resource recovery expert Axion has joined forces with two other partners in a major initiative aimed at reusing and recycling the growing volume...
July roundtable brings together WEEE leading figures to discuss UK target setting
In early July, stakeholders from the UK’s EEE production and WEEE reuse and recycling sector convened for a roundtable debate to discuss the evidential...
New e-waste separation technologies introduced at Eindhoven facility
E-waste recycling services provider Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) has expanded the processing lines at the firm's Eindhoven, Netherlands e-waste facility. This site, said to...
World Cup leads to influx of flat-screen TVs for recycling at Veolia facility
Veolia says it has received 65% more flat screen TVs at its state of the art recycling facility in Shropshire
Collaborative approach to collection increases WEEE recovery in Northern England trial
An EU-funded project appears to illustrate the possibilities for increasing collection rates of difficult-to-recover WEEE items by partnering with well-known and trusted consumer brands....
