WEEE
Defra lowers WEEE collection targets
March 12, 2018
The UK Government’s environmental ministry has announced a provisional decrease in target tonnage for 2018. Following news that UK compliance schemes missed the WEEE collection target in 2017, Defra has announced a reduction in the collection target for 2018. The provisional target of 532,818 tonnes is nearly 100,000 tonnes lower than last year’s aim, reports […]
WEEE collection misses 2017 targets
March 5, 2018
The United Kingdom’s ambitions for WEEE collection last year proved unreachable, the Government has announced. Defra, the British Government’s environmental department, has published statistics suggesting that the 2017 WEEE collection target was missed, and that compliance schemes are therefore awaiting a large compliance fee. However, some compliance schemes are remaining unworried, according to Let’s Recycle, […]
