It's the official marking of the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.

The European Parliament has adopted changes to the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive designed to tighten exports of used good and strengthen the recovery electronics.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive (2012/19/EU) aims to reduce the environmental impact of WEEE by encouraging separate collection and recycling of such waste. The ...

A timetable has been established for implementing the European Commission’s Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister for the United Kingdom’s ...

I. Background and Objectives of the "Two Directives" In order to protect human and animal health and the environment, after ten years of discussion and consultation, Directive 2002/96/EC of the ...

Companies will face a variety of legal challenges as they attempt to comply with the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) will caution this ...

Germany's parliament has approved the country's new waste electronics regulations, implementing the WEEE Directive and the ROHS Directive. The German government has opted for a clearing house system ...

At an EU level, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been identified as a Priority Waste Stream. There are three reasons for this: At least (and probably considerably more than) one ...

With everything else going on in the UK over the weekend it is worth noting that the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) came into force on July 1st. To be honest WEEE is a ...

Under the guidelines and definitions of the Environment Agency enforced (SEPA in Scotland and EHS in Northern Ireland) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, companies in the ...

Recycling directive shrouded in uncertainty... With the 13 August deadline for the WEEE Directive fast approaching, there appear to be more questions than answers about its impact on the IT industry.