EU member countries have had to meet WEEE recycling targets in that the rate of recovery for IT, telecommunications, and consumer equipment is at least 75 percent, which is measured in terms of average weight. Manufacturers must now state the weight of the electrical and electronic waste entering and leaving treatment and recovery or recycling facilities. Member states must draw up a register of manufacturers along with the quantities and categories of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market, collected, recycled, and recovered in their territory. Each member state must also transpose the WEEE legislation into local law, which is where local differences create WEEE compliance reporting issues even though there is general adherence to the EU level directive. The task of monitoring manufacturers' sales in volumes to each country (for the purpose of establishing recycling quotas) will fall to a member state's agency working under the direction of its national Office of the Environment as the managing authority for WEEE. On their side, manufacturers must register up front with each country's authority for the purpose of reporting recovery and recycling results. The initial recycle quota is set at a relatively low bar of 4 kilograms per capita per year, although countries such as the Netherlands have had established programs that exceed this volume for years.
Although the WEEE directive has jurisdiction only over the EU, most multinational electronics and telecommunications companies will implement the infrastructure and IT necessary to manage compliance processes on a global basis. They do this in anticipation of similar legislation in other regions and to maintain worldwide process standardization. With legislation like WEEE, supply chain management (SCM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) have become cradle-to-grave endeavors with significant depth and complexity added to the reverse logistics process. But an even bigger burden might be the requirement for manufacturers to recycle a portion of electrical and electronic waste made way back when, which seems a daunting task, and the specifics of how it will work exactly are still largely unknown.
Although the WEEE directive has jurisdiction only over the EU, most multinational electronics and telecommunications companies will implement the infrastructure and IT necessary to manage compliance processes on a global basis. They do this in anticipation of similar legislation in other regions and to maintain worldwide process standardization. With legislation like WEEE, supply chain management (SCM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) have become cradle-to-grave endeavors with significant depth and complexity added to the reverse logistics process. But an even bigger burden might be the requirement for manufacturers to recycle a portion of electrical and electronic waste made way back when, which seems a daunting task, and the specifics of how it will work exactly are still largely unknown.
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