ERP Lobbies EU for an improved WEEE Directive
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After the European Commission appointed consultants to examine the success of the WEEE Directive, the Commission published draft amendments for the WEEE Directive which ERP feels do not go far enough. Although the aim of reducing the amount of WEEE being sent to landfill is increasingly being fulfilled, there are still many other parts of WEEE management that have either not been addressed or achieved.
Not all WEEE streams are being properly managed; bad treatment and illegal exports are still being carried out and there is still a very large amount of WEEE, although collected, that is not reported or accounted for and probably not treated in an environmentally sound manner.
Based on its 4 years experience in 11 countries and collecting more than 700,000 tonnes of electrical waste, ERP has carried out a WEEE landscape assessment through which it has learnt that a significant amount of WEEE is still exported outside the EU. This study aims to help Member States and the EU Commission gain a complete picture of the reality of the WEEE market.
