Easy Hardware Trading is active in the green world and the recycling services offered meet the strict standards of the EU Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. The EU estimated that the waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) will grow to more than 12 million tonnes by 2020. One of the main reason causing this phenomenon is that the production of modern electronics requires the use of scarce and expensive resources that, if not properly managed, can cause environmental and health problems. To improve the environmental management of this mixture of potentially dangerous materials and components, treatment and recycling of electronics at the end of their life is needed.
To address these problems a legislation has been set up and divided into two main Directives: the Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE Directive) and the Directive on the restriction of the use of certain substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive).
The first WEEE Directive was founded in February 2003. The Directive created schemes where consumers return their WEEE free of charge with the aim to increase the recycling of WEEE and re-use. To fight the fast increase waste stream, in 2008 the new WEEE Directive was proposed and implemented on the 13th of August 2012 and became effective on 14 February 2014.
EU legislation restricting the use of potentially dangerous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive) entered into force in February 2003. The legislation requires heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, and flame retardants such as polybrominated biphenyls) to be replaced by safer alternatives. The updated RoHS Directive became effective on 3 January 2013.
In 2017 a common methodology has been established for the calculation of the weight of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the national market in each Member State and also a common methodology for the calculation of the quantity of Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) generated by weight in each Member State.
Meeting the requirements of this EU Directives is helping Easy Hardware Trading to show its green spirit to several clients. The meeting of these requirements is hardly recommended to each type of companies with the aim to reduce the electronic waste and being more environmentally friendly.
