We take Environmental Management and legislative compliance very seriously and work with our partners to ensure that the Duty of Care requirements are met in full.

There is a minefield of, often confusing, legislation relating to the storage, collection, transfer, recovery, recycling and disposal (either via landfill or incineration) of your WEEE.

Firstly, the WEEE Regulations which came into force in the UK on 2nd January 2007. The WEEE Directive enforces the recovery for reuse or recycling of electrical and electronic equipment i.e. anything with a mains plug or terminals. It also places obligations and responsibilities for the recovery and recycling of WEEE on different Business sectors.

Secondly, the Environmental Permitting Regulations, which came into force in April 2008, require all WEEE carriers and treatment facilities to be registered with and approved by the Environment Agency.

These two pieces of legislation therefore require that your WEEE is recovered for reuse or recycling by EA approved facillities. You have an obligation to ensure that your WEEE is carried and dealt with by EA licenced facillities. In addition, there is a paper trail detailing the transfer of waste or consignment of hazardous waste which demonstrates to the EA that you have complied with the legislative requirements.

BR Environmental Services is a fully licenced facility under these regulations, allowing us to carry (transport), receive and treat WEEE by repair, refurbishment or recycling all categories of WEEE.

These categories are contained within Schedule 1 to the WEEE Regulations with (non exhaustive) lists of products, which fall within each of these categories.

Other Legislation which impacts upon Waste Management Operations include:

Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 as amended

Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and seizure of vehicles) Regulations 1991 and 1998