WEEE Information for Retailers & Distributors

When selling any electrical or electronic item to a customer, you are obliged under the WEEE Directive to inform your customers about the implications of the Directive and to provide the means to retrieve any unwanted item which a new purchase is replacing. There are two routes by which this can be achieved:

1. Joining the Distributor Take Back Scheme operated under licence by REPIC

Under this scheme, retailers and distributors pay a fee to join up. They are then obliged to inform all customers of the WEEE disposal facilities which are available at local civic amenity sites or recycling centres. Businesses which join this scheme will not normally need GC Enterprises’ services.

2. Establishing your own arrangements, under a producer compliance scheme of your choice

Under this scheme, WEEE will be allowed to accumulate on the retail premises themselves – making them a ‘designated collection facility’ or ‘DCF’. WEEE will be regularly collected by a subcontractor of the chosen compliance scheme, and removed to an approved authorised treatment facility (‘AATF’). Retailers and distributors are responsible for the cost of collections and transport to the AATF (but not for any further costs downstream). As the operator of both a designated collection facility and an approved authorised treatment facility GC Enterprises is ideally placed to offer this service across the South Wales region.

We work for the following producer compliance schemes:

• REPIC (Recycling Electrical Producers’ Industry Consortium)
• Electrocycle/B2B Compliance
• Valpac
• ERP (European Recycling Platform / Geodis)