How the 再生利用するing system will work

By SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail

Last updated at 22:00 25 July 2006

Prices on 電気の goods such as washing machines and TVs are 始める，決める to rise by a total of ￡500million a year with the 実施 of a new EU 再生利用するing 法律. Here we look at how the new system will work:

What is the new EU 指示的な?

The WEEE - Waste 電気の and Electronic 器具／備品 - 指示的な要求するs collection and 再生利用するing of 電気の製品s, rather than 許すing them to go into landfill 場所／位置s. Some of these will be refurbished and re-used in, for example, the 第三世界.

What is the value of 再生利用するing of this 器具／備品?

Many of these 製品s 含む／封じ込める有毒な化学製品s and metals, which can 害（を与える） the 環境 and humans. The 環境 and people's health is 保護するd if these 化学製品s - eg lead; 水銀柱，温度計; cadmium; hexavalent chromium; polybrominated biphenyls (PBB); or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) - can be 収穫d and re-used.

What does it cover?

There are ten 部類s of 器具／備品 - large 世帯器具s such as fridges and cookers; small 世帯器具s such as vacuum cleaners and coffee 製造者s; IT and 通信機器 such as computers and fax machines; 消費者器具／備品 such as televisions and hi-fis; lighting 器具／備品 such as fluorescent bulbs and fixtures; 電気の and electronic 道具s such as 演習s and sewing machines.

Also toys, leisure and sports 器具／備品 such as ビデオ games consoles and slot machines; 医療の装置s such as 研究室／実験室器具／備品 and 透析 machines; 監視するing and 支配（する）／統制する器具s such as smoke detectors and thermostats; and (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 dispensers such as cash machines and drinks dispensers. Filament bulbs are not 含むd.

How will people know whether a 製品 should be 再生利用するd rather than 捨てるd?

In 未来, 製品s which should not be 簡単に thrown out with the rubbish will be 示すd with a crossed out wheelie 貯蔵所.

How much electronic waste will have to be collected?

More than 1 million tonnes - 20kg for every many woman and child - will have to be collected and recyled or re-used every year. This equates to some 93 million items, 含むing - five million TV 始める，決めるs, two million home computers and 8,000 tonnes of 電気の or 殴打／砲列-operated toys.

What will 消費者s be 推定する／予想するd to do?

消費者s will be 推定する／予想するd to take all the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d items to their 地元の会議再生利用するing centre. 会議s will collect large items, such as washing machines. However, some 課す a 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金.

Some 蓄える／店s will continue to operate 解放する／自由な take-支援する services of old larger 製品s, such as washing machines, when 配達するing a new item.

What 刑罰，罰則s 存在する for 消費者s who do not return old 製品s for 再生利用するing?

非，不，無. The onus is on 生産者s and 政府s to encourage 消費者s to 参加する the 率先任意に, rather than through 警告s and 許可／制裁s.

Who is 責任がある policing the new 政権?

The 環境機関 in England and むちの跡s, 加える its 同等（の）団体／死体s in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Who is 責任がある running and 財政／金融ing the new system?

Retailers will 基金 the 拡大 of 会議再生利用するing centres through 与える／捧げるing millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs to a central 基金.

分かれて, 製造業者s will have to 報告（する）／憶測 their 生産／産物 and market 株 to the 環境機関. They will then be 要求するd to 財政／金融 the 再生利用するing of a 始める，決める tonnage of electronic waste. They will have to 報告（する）／憶測支援する to 確認する they have met the 的.