What does WEEED stand for?

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (UK)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Aa Some of the most well-known laws in this area include the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, or RoHS, and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, or WEEE, which sets collection, recycling and recovery targets for electronics throughout the European Union.

Getting your green IT credentials

The site at Billingham recycles 800,000 TVs and monitors and 400,000 refrigerators a year, collected from businesses and councils, under the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE).

Call for new green incentives for white goods

Under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, the electronics industry has to pay for all televisions to be recycled.

In the graveyard for TVs, there's a flicker of life

s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive was passed in 2003, considerable attention has been directed toward solving the problem of e-waste.

Reduce and Reuse ? New Ways to Handle E-Waste

The European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive aims to slash the number of goods ending up in landfill by ensuring it is recycled.

Plug into seminar on electrical goods waste

In the European Union, for example, shifting content requirements through the Restruction on Hazardous Substances Directive, which aims to restrict the use of hazardous materials in electronics, and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive could force some producers to shift their raw material intake.

Holding their own: buffeted by the surge in demand from China, ...

RECYCLING electrical goods could boost the waste management industry by EUR40million a year, it was claimed yesterday The EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive for the safe disposal of appliances comes into force today.

d40million boost for recycling

He believes this is an ideal time to start his business as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive, which aims to prevent waste going into landfill, has just come into force.

From the deep blue ( to being totally green