WEEE scream

Some of the regulations came into affect on July 1st prompting some magazines and articles to discuss exactly what's going on, these have then attracted more discussions on exactly what the articles have got wrong, and then more discussions on what those first discussions got wrong.

It's not surprising really as I said myself it's not exactly the most easy of documents to read. Right first things first I am not a lawyer etc. this is my interpretation of this document so don't be quoting me in no legal proceedings got that.

Stripped down to what we need to know it's really quite simple, there are two factions - providers and consumers (my terms), these split into two themselves to what the document refers to as producers and distributors, and private households and non-private households.

From a consumer side all handling of WEEE is free, the financial burden is met by the providers as per Part 3 sections 8 and 9, and Part 5 section 31 (why is it split up like this?)

The difference is as follows - The distributor is obligated to pick up the financial cost of collecting WEEE provided they're supplying equivalent EEE, but only for private households.

The producer is obligated to pick up the financial cost of collecting WEEE provided they're supplying equivalent EEE, or if the WEEE has been marketed as EEE in the UK on or after 13th August 2005 but only for non-private households.

If you don't fall into that category then it's your responsibility and cost to have it disposed of.

That's it end of story; hardly difficult now was it?