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WEEE Forum Malta Conference_Day Two_15 years of excellence testimonials
1. 15 Years of Excellence in
WEEE collection and recycling
2. 15 years ago...
Six PROs in five countries:
Norway: Hvitevareretur and
Elektronikretur (Norsirk)
Sweden: El-Kretsen
Belgium: Recupel
Netherlands: NVMP (Wecycle)
Austria: UFH
4. No national WEEE registers
Few compliance schemes
Incipient legal framework
No clearing houses
No WEEE statistics
Little market intelligence
90,000 producers registered
More than 160 schemes
WEEE legislation across EU
Clearing houses in eight states
Eurostat and Key Figures
WEEE flows country studies, CWIT
15 years ago... and now
5.
6. Mission
We want to help non-profit producer
responsibility organisations become influential in
their market and with policymakers, help them
succeed operationally and be known as
members of the world’s chief e-waste
competence centre and as promoters of a
circular economy
6
Influence Operations
Competence
centre
Circular
economy
Producer
9. Benchmark operations
Design management tools
Write standards
Sign up to the EIP on Raw
Materials
Support actions countering illegal
practices
Construct an Urban Mine
Knowledge Data Platform
Improve efficiency
Report adequately
Level the playing field
Make economy resource
efficiency
Promote state-of-the-art practices
Secure access to raw materials in
a sustainable economy
Why How
21. Actions to counter illegal practices
Mismanagement of discarded
electronics within Europe involves
a volume 10 times that of e-waste
shipped to foreign shores in
undocumented exports.
65. 15 years ago...
Not enough WEEE treatment specific plants.
Undistinguishable WEEE sector.
Practices to de-pollute WEEE not standardised
and often ignored.
Little communication between producers and
recycling industry.
and now
67. WEEELABEX: LIFE Best of Best project
Co-financed by the EU’s LIFE
programme
2009-2013
68. WEEELABEX outcomes
• EU bespoke standards on collection,
transport and treatment of WEEE
• Pool of trained auditors
• Conformity verification scheme
• WEEELABEX organisation
69. Setting standards
• WEEELABEX standards were the
seeds of EN 50625 suite of
standards
• WEEE treatment standards are
legally binding in France, Ireland,
Belgium, Slovenia and the
Netherlands. Why not in all
member states of the EU?
Regulation
Standards
Compliance
71. Why proper depollution
Proper treatment of hazardous
substances
Lower environmental impact
Better quality output fractions
Availability of secondary raw
materials for a circular economy
72. WEEELABEX: a tangible impact on depollution
• Optimization of cooling, lamps and screens treatment technologies to remove
greenhouse gases, mercury lamps and CRT tubes
• Tools to check WEEE treatment depollution performance
• Exchange of expertise among operators and take-back schemes
• Clear limit values
74. Promoting a harmonised calculation
Standards have defined common methodologies and metrology
• WEEELABEX promoted a level playing field among the operators
• Created a common vocabulary for the stakeholders
• Allowed reliable calculation of recycling and recovery rates, taking into
account compliant depollution
75. The importance of verified traceability
Requirements on traceability to prevent environmental and health risks
• Verification and control of output fractions destinations and treatment
• Resulting in new treatment technologies closing the loop
81. WEEELABEX training centre
• ISO17024 accredited in 2016 as a CB
• WEEE treatment is complex
• Auditors need training for proper auditing
• WEEELABEX Auditors are required:
qualified profile, distance test, 45 hrs
active training and final test.
• Specific training for cooling and lamps
• Regular annual qualification-test
15Auditor training
99Trainees
83. Auditing: towards harmonisation
• ISO 17065 accredited in 2016 as a CB
• Drop rate 15%
• Audits quality review process
Audits performed since 2013 310
12Countries
Auditors 67
84. What operators and PROs say
Source: WEEELABEX impact assessment. WEEE Forum 2016
Better
depollution
Improved
WEEE
traceability
Uniform and
detailed
requirements
for all
Better legal
compliance
Better
image
High quality
output
fractions
Time to meet
admin
requirements
Long
process
Costs
Lack of
authorities
support
Support
circular
economy
Reduced
environmental
impact
85. Looking forward
• WEEELABEX certification schemes
now adapting all streams to
CENELEC standards
• Coming up WEEELABEX certification
to logistic facilities
• On-line training for treatment
operators and authorities in local
language
weeelabex.org
