WEEE Compliance in Europe

Under the proposed UK Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations, for equipment that you buy from Avdel® after August 2005, Avdel® is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. The old equipment that your new purchase from Avdel® replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE.

Under the UK WEEE Regulations, Avdel® is also required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from Avdel® after August 2005, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE.

Avdel® is required to provide these arrangements starting from 1 April 2007.

Avdel® products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Avdel® is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products Avdel® has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers. We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address.

Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs is:

• Avdel® pays for the costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the WEEE to meet the targets set by the WEEE Regulations;
• Avdel® pays for the costs of data management and reporting to the Environment Agency to demonstrate compliance with all administrative requirements of the WEEE Regulations;
• you pay for transportation of your WEEE to Avdel®'s appointed recycler in the UK. Avdel® has established a recycling contract with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) and will cover any costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the equipment on arrival at the EARN facility in the UK. All New WEEE that arises from the purchase of Avdel® products is classed as non-hazardous waste.

It is your responsibility to arrange and pay for costs of collection and transportation to EARN. In order to meet UK Duty of Care Regulations for waste disposal, you should use one of the following carriers (which hold a valid Waste Carriers License):

For larger quantities of waste, you may want to contact the recycler directly to arrange and pay for alternative collection arrangements. The Avdel® Recycler in the United Kingdom is:

To comply with the UK Duty of Care Regulations the transport of your waste to the recycler must be accompanied by suitable documentation. You must also keep a signed copy of this documentation for two years.

In order to meet this requirement and to enable EARN to identify Avdel® equipment upon arrival at the recycler's address, please download the Recycling Label for British Customers. Complete the label with your company details and attach it to a suitable box for transport to EARN.

WEEE Reporting Recycling Data for Avdel® Equipment in the United Kingdom

WEEE Reporting Recycling Data for Avdel® Equipment in the United Kingdom Under Section 29 of of the proposed WEEE Regulations, Avdel® must provide annual information of the quantities and categories of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market, reused, recycled and recovered within the UK.

The first WEEE recycling report will cover the period January 2007 to December 2007. EARN will prepare the recycling data report for Avdel®. Information in the EARN recycling data report will be summarised on the Avdel® website when it becomes available.