For business purchasers of electrical and electronic equipment bought from our company, Loop Scorpio Ltd passes all legal responsibility on to those purchasers for the correct treatment and disposal at the end of product life according to UK WEEE regulations.

Consumer Customers

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations came into force in July 2007. The main purpose of these new regulations is to require and ensure that all producers of electrical equipment pay for the recyling of household electrical goods. Previously, the bill for such recyling was met by the council where the goods were disposed of.

The WEEE regulations also apply to retailers and distributors of electrical equipment who are now under an obligation to actively assist in the provision of a UK wide WEEE collection facility and also to actively encourage the participation of consumers themselves in the recyling of electrical equipment.

In order to assist you in the necessary recyling, we at Loop Scorpio are contributing towards a national fund that will assist local councils to further develop their existing waste electronics collection facilities. This in turn will assist the producers of electrical equipment to meet their own obligations.

Unfortunately, not every council site is suitable for the collection of all types of waste electrical goods. Therefore, to find out to see if your local site is suitable, and/or to locate your nearest participating site (including other collection facilities that may not be operated by the council), please visit Recycle-More.co.uk. You will also on that site find lots of helpful advice on many other aspects of recycling at home.

Did you know, for example, that :

• Electrical goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, growing by 5% each year
• In the UK the amount of electrical waste we create in one year would fill the new Wembley 6 times!
• Each year in the UK we go through over 1.2 million tonnes of electrical waste. That is the equivalent of 150 thousand double decker buses!
• 75% of waste electronics end up in landfill sites
• In the lifetime of 1 UK citizen 3.3 tonnes of waste electronics is created! (weeeman.org)
• Two million TV sets are discarded every year - most end up in landfill sites (Recycle Now)
• "Over six million electrical items are thrown away every year in the UK. It is estimated that over half of them are still working or could easily be repaired." (ITDG, 2003)
• 15 million mobile phones are upgraded in the UK each year, laid from end-to-end they would reach from John O'Groats to Lands End! (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk)

Much of the waste electrical goods we all generate can be recycled and resources recovered to make new consumer goods. To remind consumers of the collection methods available which in turn allow recycling to take place, all electrical items sold now carry the 'crossed out wheeled bin' symbol. To ensure your waste electronics don't contribute to damaging the environment, please visit Recycle-More.co.uk and recycle today.