WEEE and Waste Management

You will often hear WEEE discused in relation to recycling, but what does it mean to the average recycler?

WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The WEEE directive which came into force fully in 1st July 2007 puts the responsibility for disposal of electrical equipment with the manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment, and requires them to dispose of unwanted items in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Waste Management is an innovative service from OnePrimary, which corresponds with the implementation of the WEEE directive into UK law in January 2007.

This is a multilayered Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliancy service combining data eradication and end-of-life IT hardware disposal services.

The service enables us to dispose of businesses' IT hardware as well as destroy any data held on redundant storage devices, therefore eradicating the possibility that a businesses' data can be compromised once a storage device is thrown away.

By supplying a data destruction service, in addition to WEEE hardware disposal, we can provide complete piece of mind that any data unwittingly left on a redundant hard drive is removed.

Disposal options to ensure complete data destruction include a degaussing technique that uses powerful magnets to eliminate all magnetic properties from a hard drive.

We are committed to reducing the levels of IT hardware incorrectly disposed of in the UK each year and to reducing their resulting impact on the environment.

If when using our Repair Centre and we advise we are unable to repair the item, we can arrange to dispose of the equipment in accordance with the WEEE directive (charges may apply).