WEEE

WEEE Compliance

What is WEEE?
Waste Electical and Electronic Equipment

The WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC is an EU Directive founded on the principle of "Producer Responsibility" and its general objectives are:

To prevent waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and to promote the reuse, recycling and recovery of such wastes
To improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers, distributors and consumers and in particular those operators directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment.
Scope
WEEE Directive applies across eleven categories of Electrical and Electronic Equipment EEE

The following 11 categories have been identified in the WEEE Directive as belonging to EEE:

Large household appliances
Small household appliances
IT and telecommunications equipment
Consumer equipment
Lighting equipment Electrical and electronic tools
Toys, leisure and sports equipment
Medical devices
Monitoring and control instruments
Automatic dispensers
Batteries

WEEE Categories and Charges @ B Cool! The Gadget Store

WEEE Categories:
2.3 Miscellaneous Small Household Appliances           
3.2 Other personal computing Equipment                     
4.4 Medium Size Consumer Products                           
4.5 Small Consumer Products                                       
5.2 Luminaries and Lighting Equipment                       
7.1 Toys, Leisure and Sports Equipment                      
11.1 Batteries                    

Curently there are no charges on any Weee Categories used by us here at B Cool! The Gadget Store

If you require any further information please contact us by email: info@bcool.ie                                        

Take Back of WEEE In-Store by Retailers
• Distributors, that is Retailers, must accept back WEEE in-store free of charge when they have supplied electrical and electronic equipment to consumers on a one for one equivalent basis within 15 days from date of purchase •
We offer you the oportunity to return any equivelant WEEE within 15 days of purchase on our web site. We will then see to it that the EEE is brought to the correct location and disposed off in a correct manner. Also, you may return the item to one of our stores where we will also dispose of it at the authorised locations provided for in each localtiy by WEEE Ireland. We also make provision to bring back waste battereis. We provide boxes at till locations to receive battery take back.