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WEEE Regulations:
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is now UK law. The legislation aims
to make producers pay for the collection, treatment and recovery of waste electrical equipment. The
regulations also mean that suppliers of equipment like high street shops and internet retailers must
allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.
The amount of WEEE we throw away is increasing by around 5% each year, making it the fastest growing
waste stream in the UK.
• Much of the UK’s WEEE ends up in landfill, where the lead and other toxins it contains can cause
soil and water contamination. This can have a harmful effect on natural habitat, wildlife and also
human health.
• Many electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled. Recycling items helps to
save our natural finite resources and also reduces the environmental and health risks associated
with sending electrical goods to landfill.
Distributors of new Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) have a part to play in reducing the
amount of WEEE going into landfill sites.
New Modellers Shop Ltd is obliged under these regulations to offer our customers free take-back of
their WEEE on a like-for-like basis when they buy a new Electrical or Electronic product from us.
For example, if a customer bought a new locomotive from us we would accept their old locomotive and
prevent it going into a landfill site by disposing of it safely. Customers must return their WEEE
item to us within 28 days of purchasing their new item.
Under the WEEE Regulations, all new electrical goods should now be marked with the crossed-out
wheeled bin symbol shown below:
Goods are marked with this symbol to show that they were produced after 13th August 2005, and
should be disposed of separately from normal household waste so that they can be recycled.
(Please Note: the postage cost of sending New Modellers Shop Ltd any WEEE is
payable by the Sender)
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