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Change description : 2025-08-12 11:48:00: Update made to when AATFs can issue evidence on household WEEE to include ‘WEEE collected from final holders’. Updated table showing ‘Recovery and recycling targets for categories of WEEE’ to include category 15 ‘Vapes and electronic cigarettes’ with a recovery rate of 75% and a recycling rate of 55%. Also added vapes and electronic cigarettes as the 7th collection stream ‘stream G’ to report data in. The British Standards Institution standard for repair and refurbishment of WEEE was updated to ‘BS EN 50614:2020’. The template for AATF reporting recycling and recovery rates was updated to add vapes and electronic cigarettes. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance

How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

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Environment Agency
Published
6 May 2014
Last updated
2012 FebruaryAugust 2025 — See all updates

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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): evidence and national protocols guidance

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This guidance for WEEE producer compliance schemes, approved authorised treatment facilities and approved exporters includes the:

  • evidence and national protocols guidance
  • WEEE recovery and recycling targets flow chart
  • actual recovery and recycling rate template

Updates to this page

Published 6 May 2014

Last updated 2012 FebruaryAugust 2025 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

    3. WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance – section 2, we have clarified the third bullet "you received the WEEE from, or on behalf of, a producer compliance scheme (PCS) – you should have a direct agreement or contract with the PCS prior to receiving the WEEE at your AATF and be able to demonstrate this to your regulator upon request, the agreement or contract with the PCS cannot be held by a third party".

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Update history

2025-08-12 11:48
Update made to when AATFs can issue evidence on household WEEE to include ‘WEEE collected from final holders’. Updated table showing ‘Recovery and recycling targets for categories of WEEE’ to include category 15 ‘Vapes and electronic cigarettes’ with a recovery rate of 75% and a recycling rate of 55%. Also added vapes and electronic cigarettes as the 7th collection stream ‘stream G’ to report data in. The British Standards Institution standard for repair and refurbishment of WEEE was updated to ‘BS EN 50614:2020’. The template for AATF reporting recycling and recovery rates was updated to add vapes and electronic cigarettes.

2025-02-20 11:24
WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance – section 2, we have clarified the third bullet “you received the WEEE from, or on behalf of, a producer compliance scheme (PCS) – you should have a direct agreement or contract with the PCS prior to receiving the WEEE at your AATF and be able to demonstrate this to your regulator upon request, the agreement or contract with the PCS cannot be held by a third party”.

2024-04-22 11:20
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): evidence and national protocols guidance. Sections 1, 5, 6 and 7 updated to reflect changes to WEEE online.

2024-03-05 14:46
WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance, section 1 changed ‘WEEE Settlement Centre’ to ‘WEEE Online’.