The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive is
intended to reduce the amount of harmful substances that are added to to the
environment via landfill waste disposal.
HUNT ENGINEERING considers its product (programmable Electronic Hardware for
Real Time systems) to be a component that is part of another type of equipment
or system, as it does not have a direct function outside of this equipment or
system. It is this equipment or system, for use by the end user, which must be
evaluated to determine if it falls under the scope of the WEEE directive.
Therefore the question over applicability of WEEE legislation for a HUNT
ENGINEERING customer's product must be considered and determined by the
customer.
For this reason HUNT ENGINEERING are not registering as a producer under a WEEE
compliance scheme.
HUNT ENGINEERING however do agree with the aims of the WEEE directive, and
strongly support the minimisation of Waste Electronic products going to landfill
- in particular, to preserve, protect and improve the quality of the
environment, protect human health and utilise natural resources prudently and
rationally.
For this reason HUNT ENGINEERING are following some of the guidelines of the
WEEE directive simply as a pursuit of good practice.
In particular
1. We mark our products with the crossed out wheelie bin wherever possible,
and our documentation carries this mark to encourage proper recycling of our
products.
2. As part of our terms and conditions we offer a
means for our customers to return unwanted HUNT ENGINEERING products to us, so
that we can properly dispose of them via an approved recycling scheme.
More details can be found at
http://www.netregs.gov.uk/netregs/topics/WEEE/default.aspx
