Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment - WEEE Recovery
Electrical and electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK. Around 1.8 million tonnes are generated every year.
January 2007 saw the introduction of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations, which aim to:-
- Reduce waste from electrical and electronic equipment
- Encourage the separate collection of WEEE
- Encourage treatment, reuse, recovery, recycling and sound environmental disposal of WEEE
- Make producers of EEE responsible for the environmental impact of their products
- Improve the environmental performance of all those involved during the lifecycle of EEE.
All businesses that use electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) must comply with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations. This includes all domestic or household EEE that you may use on your premises.
Businesses must ensure they give their WEEE to a registered waste carrier or other approved person, ensure the waste is accompanied by a waste transfer note or hazardous waste consignment note (as appropriate) and taken to a suitable facility to be treated and recycled. Businesses must also obtain and keep proof that the WEEE was given to a waste management business, and was treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound way.
Solvwaste Environmental Ltd are able to remove all your waste electrical and electronic equipment for WEEE recovery including PCs, monitors, printers, photocopiers, kettles, microwaves etc. All WEEE waste is refurbished, recycled or dismantled for the recovery of parts. We provide customers with all the appropriate paperwork to prove compliance with the WEEE Regulations.
Used Fluorescent Lamp Recycling
These days everyone is becoming more aware of the importance of recycling and acting in an environmentally responsible manner. Each year, the UK generates about 100 million tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry. Most of this ends up in landfill where the biodegradable part generates methane (a potent greenhouse gas), toxic materials may leach out and valuable energy is used in extracting and processing new raw materials.
It is thought that there are more than 100 million fluorescent and highway lamps used in the United Kingdom each year. The mercury from only one fluorescent tube can contaminate up to 30,000 litres of water beyond a safe standard for drinking, and up until recently over 3,100 tonnes of waste has been landfilled each year.
Recycling your used fluorescent and sodium lamps will divert large quantities of hazardous mercury from landfill and prevent its potential escape into our land and water supplies. Once in the environment, mercury can cause serious water pollution, and is readily taken up by fish, plants and crops causing bioaccumulation in foods in the human diet.
Unlike basic recycling or 'lamp disposal', offered by some of our competitors, Solvwaste Environmental Ltd ensures 100% of the lamp is recycled, by using a company with an in-house distillation process. This process involves separating the individual components of Fluorescent tubes and other discharge lamps and recovering them for recycling or re-use in a variety of industries.
Remember - an employee attempting to dispose of a Fluorescent Tube in a skip, not only condemns the whole skip as Hazardous Waste, with costly consequences of its safe disposal, but would also be exposed to the potential dangers of broken glass and also the inhalation of small amounts of toxic materials released as dust and vapour.
Solvwaste Environmental Ltd offer a used lamp recycling service, and will ensure 100% of your used fluorescent and sodium lamps are recycled, preventing glass, aluminium, lead, cadmium and mercury from being landfilled.