WEEE Audit

Environmental compliance that falls under WEEE regulation DIRECTIVE 2012/19/EU is complicated.

It is a rarity to find an organisation that has an employee that solely deals with end of life and waste electronics. The responsibility normally falls to the estates team, FM’s or IT department heads.

To avoid prosecution organisations will normally appoint a company that appears to be professional, some even carry out a site visit and request samples of waste transfer documentation.

However if your end of life equipment was identified in a land fill or illegally exported could you prove due diligence was carried out prior to engagement?

Our audit will help you to identify environmental WEEE risks, best practice, detail positive and negative areas of your WEEE management and recommend areas of non compliance.

Our report will provide simple steps to implement on your site to give you peace of mind.

A piece of electrical equipment is classed as WEEE when the original owner has finished with it. Even if the item is sold as working the Environment Agency still deem it as WEEE.

Many organisations are in breach of the WEEE regulations as they trust their appointed recycling partner and believe it is a compliant service. We carry out audits for a number of organisations, regularly the company has been shown a waste carriers licence which they believe qualifies the company to deal with their end of life electronics. A waste carriers licence can be applied for by anyone, this is not a licence to treat WEEE.

Another misconception is that their WEEE is being treated in the UK by an AAFT. ( Authorised Treatment Facility).

In a recent audit we investigated a recycling partner's downstream vendors, the result was that the companies WEEE was, unknowingly being illegally exported. Once this was highlighted the organisation immediately halted its WEEE stream to that partner. Had this not have been highlighted the CSR ramifications could have been catastrophic.

Contact us today to find out how our WEEE audit services can benefit your organisation.

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What Our Customers Say

The guys at Oden removed the stress we had. Disposing of our electronic items was an environmental and data protection mine field. They visited our site, carried out an audit and collected the same week. Every detail is on the portal for us. Great company to deal with.
Quick clean service carried out by professional company. Lovely collection staff.
We selected the collection box option, boxes are always collected swiftly and replaced. Hazardous Waste Consignment Notes are always signed and uploaded to the portal. We experienced many problems with WEEE companies; our ISO EMS means that all records are in place. Prior to using Oden we always had to ask companies for copies that they rarely had. We now log onto the portal and download all data and reports. Thank you
Next day collection, all paperwork supplied. Perfect.
Mobile destruction unit came to our site, the operator made a list of drives, drives were destroyed and taken away. Very satisfying to watch our drives being destroyed.
Booking was easy and collection was carried out in a timely manner. Data erasure certificates were very detailed.
Oden are a local company and have provided IT disposal services for us for 10 years, can't recommend enough.

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