Minister Sleet Recycling Investments Ahead Of WEEE Day

Science Minister Malcolm Wicks has kept it secret about the Investment in New Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment legislation   recycling infrastructure to put in a place to start for the official beginning of producer responsibility on Sunday. In response to questions from Liberal Democrat Dan Rogerson, Mr Wicks said yesterday that since from the Beginning when WEEE directive is adopted them invested about $15 million into new plant treatment in December. The minister made a statement: "This investment includes plants in South Wales, Bedfordshire, Kent and Birmingham which will be capable of handling in excess of an additional 250,000 tonnes of WEEE material."

Letsrecyclesays “The minister's statement came as metal recycler Sims revealed the expansion of its Manchester WEEE processing site, which it believes will increase its tonnage capacity for handling WEEE by 50%.The expanded site at Stalybridge will cover 10,000 square meters, allowing greater access to and from the facility, allowing more WEEE to be received. Further plans to relocate the site's pre-shredder and move the pre-sorting process under cover to improve the operation of the site are also being considered as the start of WEEE producer responsibility looms. We only switched to the Stalybridge operation in December 2005 after outgrowing capacity at our other Manchester operation in Ashton-under-Lyne,”

The IPR was demanded by few companies from the IT world to allow companies invest in reducing the environmental impact and growing the dump of electronic items which then benefits with cheaper recycling. The Minister was seemed confident of start of WEEE producer responsibility in this country on July 1 and he also made some statements on his involvement in UK’s existing treatment network for fridges and the growing capacity for the electronic equipment.