Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Producer compliance schemes (PCS) arrange for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) to be collected and treated, recycled or reused on behalf of their members. They buy evidence from approved authorised treatment facilities (AATFs) and approved exporters (AEs) to demonstrate that the WEEE has been treated, reused or recovered.
If you want to operate a PCS you must:
GOV.UK: Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) collection: code of practice
NIEA: Application forms and guidance for PCS operators
You may also need to register as a waste carrier or broker to transport or trade waste.
Waste carriers, brokers and dealers
If you operate a PCS you must give your environmental regulator (NIEA or SEPA):
You must also:
The operational plan must include:
There are different obligations for collecting household WEEE and non-household WEEE. Contact the NIEA or SEPA for further information.
Contact your environmental regulator
GOV.UK: WEEE: apply for approval as a producer compliance scheme
Businesses affected by the WEEE Regulations
Equipment covered by the WEEE Regulations
Producers of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
Distributors of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
Users of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
Repairing, refurbishing and storing WEEE
Operating a WEEE producer compliance scheme
Groundwater in Northern Ireland, DAERA have produced a leaflet to raise awareness about this untapped resource
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