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WEEE Directive
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) aims to minimise the impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment, by increasing re-use and recycling and reducing the amount of WEEE going to landfill. It seeks to achieve this by making producers responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment, and by obliging distributors to allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.
As a producer of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Acco UK Ltd (Acco) has
- Identified which products fall within the Directive.
- Collated all the product data (volume and weight), for each EU
country, necessary to submit to the controlling bodies to establish
its recovery obligation.
- Complied with the WEEE product marking obligation by marking
all products manufactured from 13th August 2005, with the crossed out "Wheelie
Bin" symbol.
- Registered with Valpak’s Producer Compliance Scheme our "unique producer number" is WEE/HB0045SY
Full Terms & Conditions available from the Acco Price List
For further information on Acco’s obligation, please contact: informationeurope@acco.com or click here to download the policy document.
For further information on the WEEE Directive, please contact: weee@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Battery Directive
The EC Directive on Batteries and Accumulators, including Waste Batteries and Accumulators aims to minimise the impact of batteries on the environment and encourage the recovery for the materials they contain. The UK regulations for labelling and battery composition came into force on 26 September 2008 with requirements for collection and recycling to follow.
Having “producer responsibility” under this Directive ACCO UK have registered with a compliance partner and can confirm compliance with the requirements of the Directive.
For more information, click here to download our policy document.
REACH Regulations
REACH, the European Union regulation for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (came into force in 2007) has one key central aim: to protect human health and the environment from the risks arising from the use of chemicals. REACH intends to achieve its goal by requiring business to fully ascertain and make public the risks posed by the use of chemicals.
ACCO Brand’s REACH Initiatives
Under the REACH regulations, ACCO UK has ensured all appropriate products are pre-registered. Close relations will be maintained with the supply chain, to ensure that the implementation of REACH will follow the regulation’s requirements.
For more information, click here to download our policy document.
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