Information
The WEEE Regulations require producers to make arrangements to respond to requests for information to assist with the reuse, recycling and recovery of electrical equipment.
This obligation is limited to types of new equipment put on the UK market after 13 August 2005. Information for these products should be available within a year of being put on the UK market.
The aim is to ensure that information is provided to facilitate the reuse, recycling and recovery of the equipment.
Electronic means of information dissemination such as websites or CD-ROMs may provide the most effective and least cost compliance.
Marking
The WEEE Regulations require producers to ensure that equipment which they put on the UK market after 13 August 2005 is marked with the crossed out wheeled bin symbol shown below.
In addition to the crossed out wheeled bin symbol described above, the Directive requires producers to ensure that products put on the UK market after 13 August 2005 are marked:
- to show that they were put on the market after that date; and
- to identify the producer.
The producer identification marking may consist of one of the following: brand name, trade mark, company registration number or other unique reference. This means, in practice,
the kind of identification marks in general usage now.