WEEE: Declaration of our Producer and Distributor Obligations
To make it fair for all concerned, WEEE legislation is necessarily complicated,
which makes it difficult to understand. Below we list our obligations.
Our distributors (wholesalers, dealers and resellers) throughout the European
Community also have obligations and are responsible for declaring their own
compliance in their own publicity materials.
B2B in the UK (Direct sales)
Our obligation when selling as a producer to a professional end-user or non-household
end-user
The professional end-user or non-household end-user should return to us* any product we
produced after 13th August 2005 for correct disposal
when it becomes waste.
As required, we operate a like for like take-back
scheme for products bought before 13th August 2005 when
being replaced by a similar product of ours - we can take-back waste equipment
who's origin is a different producer.
Products bought after that date are to
be returned to their own producer or distributor who should publish their
obligation like we do here.
* We are not obliged to pay for costs
involved in returning B2B WEEE.
B2C sold via a distributor in the UK (UK
resellers)
Our obligation when selling via a distributor for resale to
household end-users
As a producer, we belong
to the approved Valpak Compliance Scheme which handles our obligation for WEEE
when a product, at the end of its useful life, is deposited at a WEEE collection
site.
B2C in the UK and European Community (Direct sales)
Our obligation when selling direct to a household end-user
As a reseller to a household end-user our obligation is to
offer to take back a waste or discarded product when we sell a new product on a
like-for-like basis. We are obliged to do this free-of-charge, which means we
will discount any reasonable postage cost incurred in sending the discarded
like-for-like item to us. If you would like to do this, we will need to know
about the discarded equipment and the cost in returning it before agreeing the
discount on the new purchase.
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Correct disposal
means we send it to an ATF (authorized treatment facility) and by you returning
your discarded product
to us, we can ensure this is done properly and obtain the necessary evidence
required from us by the UK Environment Agency.
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WEEE Wheelie Bin logo
