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Safeguard Your Business With Proven Compliance

Disposing of your WEEE waste by simply putting it in the bin isn’t enough.


There are legal responsibilities surrounding the storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal of your waste. Businesses like yours need to know that your waste is being handled by appropriately licensed organisations who provide the correct documentation, and more.


The Greener Side’s process guarantees that compliance is built into the way that your waste is managed; from collection and transportation through to treatment, recycling, and reporting – we ensure your redundant technology, print consumables, and WEEE waste are handled through the appropriate legal and environmental processes.

What Does Compliance Mean When It Comes To Your Waste?

WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) covers a huge range of electrical and electronic products once they become waste; from print consumables, computers, monitors, printers, servers and telecoms equipment, to other technology.

When these products reach the end of their useful life, businesses like yours have a responsibility to ensure that each of these waste items are dealt with in a very specific way, without exception.

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In order to ensure compliancy, your responsibility is to ensure that your waste is:

  • Correctly classified
  • Stored appropriately
  • Collected by an authorised waste carrier
  • Transported legally
  • Sent to an appropriately authorised treatment facility
  • Treated or recycled using an optimal, suitable process
  • Properly documented
  • Traceable

The Regulations Behind Responsible Waste Management

WEEE Regulations

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations (LINK TO WEEE REGS ON GOV SITE) establish requirements around the collection, treatment, recovery, and environmentally responsible management of electrical and electronic waste.

For businesses disposing of redundant electrical equipment, this means taking reasonable steps to ensure that WEEE is passed to an appropriate and compliant waste management route.The Greener Side will help you to find the right route for your assets.

Environmental Regulations

Environmental legislation places responsibilities on businesses and waste operators to prevent waste from being improperly stored, transported, treated, or disposed of.

This includes requirements regarding the duty of care for waste, appropriate waste documentation, authorised carriers, and appropriately permitted treatment facilities.

Waste Classification

Different types of waste can have different handling and treatment requirements.

A computer, printer, toner cartridge, battery, or piece of packaging shouldn’t necessarily be treated in exactly the same way.

The Dangers Of Being Non-Compliant

Waste compliance isn’t simply paperwork for the sake of it.

Incorrectly managing your waste can create environmental, financial and reputational risks for your organisation.

Non-compliance can occur in a number of different ways that you might not be aware of:

  • Providing waste to an unauthorised waste carrier
  • Sending waste to an inappropriate treatment facility
  • Failing to maintain the correct waste documentation
  • Incorrect classification of waste
  • Improper storage of waste
  • Failure to demonstrate the location or waste journey
  • Allowing waste to be disposed of improperly

Depending on the circumstances, non-compliance can result in enforcement action, financial penalties, and prosecution, as well as potential damage to your organisation’s reputation.

There’s also the wider environmental impact. If WEEE isn’t treated correctly, valuable materials can be lost, while hazardous substances can enter the environment, taking thousands of years to degrade, while releasing toxins into both earth and water.

Your waste and its journey is always your responsibility – even if you have a dedicated recycling service in place, if they aren’t adhering to the Waste Regulations and WEEE Regulations, the responsibility, and ultimately, the consequences, will lie with your business, leaving you and your business vulnerable to legal action.

Don’t Take Risks With Your Waste – Join The Greener Side

With The Greener Side, compliance doesn’t stop when your waste leaves your premises. We maintain a structured process designed to provide accountability, traceability, and compliancy throughout your wastes journey, supported by various accreditations.

Your WEEE Waste and IT Assets Journey

Correct Waste Identification

We identify the types of waste being collected so that they can be directed towards the appropriate treatment and recycling routes. Different waste streams can require different treatment processes and authorisations, so correct identification is an important first step

Reuse

Licensed Waste Carriers

The Greener Side works within the appropriate waste carrier requirements to ensure that waste is collected and transported through legitimate waste management channels.Your waste shouldn’t disappear into a van without a trace. We ensure there is a controlled process from collection onwards.

Shredding

Waste Transfer Notes

When waste is transferred, the appropriate documentation provides an important record of what has been collected, by who, where it has come from, where it is going, the type of waste, who transferred it, who received it, and more. This creates an audible trail for your waste.