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The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ( WEEE Directive) is a European Community Directive, numbered 2012/19/EU, concerned with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Together with the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU, it became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery targets ...
Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. It is also commonly known as waste electrical and electronic equipment ( WEEE) or end-of-life ( EOL) electronics. [ 1] Used electronics which are destined for refurbishment, reuse, resale, salvage recycling through material recovery, or disposal are also ...
Electronic waste or e-waste in the United States refers to electronic products that have reached the end of their operable lives, and the United States is beginning to address its waste problems with regulations at a state and federal level. Used electronics are the quickest-growing source of waste and can have serious health impacts. [1]
Replaced by. Directive 2011/65/EU, 3 January 2013 [1] Recast with new legislation. The Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive 2002/95/EC ( RoHS 1 ), short for Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union.
China RoHS. China RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), officially known as Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products [1] is a Chinese government regulation to control certain materials, including lead. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [2] (MIIT) of China is responsible ...
Electronic waste has been on the agenda of the Australian Federal Government since the mid-1990s. The Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (now replaced by the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC)) was the first body to identify electrical and electronic waste as a concern.
Extended producer responsibility ( EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied in the field of waste management. [1] Such societal costs are typically externalities to market mechanisms, with a ...
Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used. Like other waste streams, reuse, donation, and repair are common ...