Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - New WEEE, RoHS Guidance Available

LONDON, Dec. 16 -- The U.K. government has made available a series of publications on the WEEE and RoHS Directives, including best practice case studies.

The guidance is available for free at www.envirowise.gov.uk/electronics.

Among the suggestions:

Talk to, or join, a recycling industry consortium.
Talk to a recycler about the requirements and costs of recycling your own product, with a view to re-design.
Find out what happens at the end-of-life for your product.
Establish a dialogue with distributors and retailers to establish if your own take-back scheme is possible, or what the best options are for your business.
Look at current contracts, both for equipment used and sold, to identify any possible transferral of responsibility.
Evaluate customer opinions about who is responsible for WEEE and see if it is possible to negotiate
Evaluate B2B takeback obligations if selling equipment to businesses that are likely to have old stock which will need to be collected and recycled.
Re-evaluate your business model.
Identify any market opportunities, such as recycling, logistics.
Consider a move from a selling to a renting business model.
Evaluate design and re-design opportunities.

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