♻️ WEEE Recycling & Recovery

What WEEE means for your business

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations place duties on businesses disposing of electrical equipment. Two in particular catch organisations out:

• Duty of care. You must ensure waste is transferred only to an authorised person. If your waste ends up fly-tipped, the liability can follow back to you — "we paid someone to take it" is not a defence if you never checked their authorisation.
• Documentation. Waste transfers must be recorded and the records kept. For hazardous waste categories the requirements are stricter still.

Our licences — and how to check them

Do not take our word for any of this. Every registration below is on a public register and each links straight to it from our footer:

What the T11 exemption allows

Our T11 exemption permits the repair, refurbishment and dismantling of waste electrical and electronic equipment. In practice that is the licence that lets us do the useful part of the job — opening equipment up, recovering working components and returning them to service — rather than only moving it from one place to another.

Materials recovery

Once refurbishment and parts harvesting are exhausted, remaining material is separated and routed through licensed downstream partners for recovery — ferrous and non-ferrous metals, precious metals from circuit boards, plastics, glass and battery streams, each to an appropriate specialist processor.

Every downstream partner must hold licences and certifications equivalent to or better than ours. That requirement is what makes our zero-landfill position meaningful rather than decorative: a chain is only as compliant as its weakest link.

Batteries and the fire risk nobody mentions

Lithium-ion batteries in laptops, tablets and phones are a genuine fire hazard once damaged, swollen or crushed — and a serious one in a collection vehicle or a storage area. If you have devices with visibly swollen or damaged batteries, flag them when you book. They are handled separately and safely. Please do not stack them at the bottom of a cage under forty other machines.