Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive

Earth’s Environment is much harsher than ever because as tech world is evolving and more and more electronic products will be coming out and more heat is released in environment which will causes Global warming and melting the iceberg responsible for having filled us with water. So in order to reuse those products the European Community proposed a directive on waste electrical and electronics equipment or in Short (WEEE), which became a European law in February 2003, The WEEE, is a set of rules and regulations which will be seeing recycling and recovering all type of electrical materials, with the ratio of 4 kilograms per person at least per annum recovered for recycling by 2009, also this rules and The law sets limits for use by businesses, public and third party organizations or any individual who was responsible for any sale, purchase and disposal of any electrical or electronic equipment.

The symbol adopted by the European Council to represent waste electrical and electronic equipment comprised a crossed out wheelie bin with or without a single black line underneath the symbol. The black line indicates that goods have been placed on the market after 2005, when the Directive came into force.[1] Goods without the black line were manufactured between 2002 and 2005. In such instances, these are treated as "historic weee" and falls outside reimbursement via producer compliance schemes.

Countries like UK, US, England, Israel, etc--Has adopted the rule to save the planet’s environment. Israel’s Ministry Environmental Protection had circulated a memo on environmental treatment of devices and places a responsibility on manufactures to safely destroys or reuse the components. The directive have seen about 9 advancement since it foundation and on December 2011 the European Parliament and the council agreed to make a second reading vote, which will see all companies to deal their product nicely without destroying the Environment.

Here is the simple Explanation about WEEE lagislation