Recycling
The directive 2002/96/CE on take-back and recycling of Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipments (WEEE) imposes the take-back and the recycling of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) at the end of life. Final users (householders and professionals) have to collect them separately and bring them back in appropriate collection points.
Recyclers, you can have information about the dismantling of our products by filling the form.
According to the directive, Producers or importers have to take-back and recycle electrical and electronic wastes from consumers. They can transmit their obligations to an Eco-Organisation which will ensure the collection and the treatment for different companies. This organisation will have to reach the objectives fixed by the directive (4 Kg per inhabitant per year) (not in every country) before the 31st December 2006. 75 % will have to be recovered and 65 % recycled. The other obligation is to inform the user.
Every single user must know that from the 13th of august 2005, it is forbidden to dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal wastes, and that adapted collection points exist. We inform our customers about the different environmental aspects of our products: recycling of the packaging, of the batteries and accumulators, and from now of our EEE.
Every EEE put on the market after the 13th of August 2005 must be marked with a common symbol: the crossed-out dust-bin. It means that the product is an EEE, and that it has to be collected separately in appropriated collection points.
There are different reasons.
Quantities of EEE increase each year, in Europe and in the world. It becomes critical to manage those wastes.
EEE contain or could contain substances that are dangerous for the Environment and for human health when the EEE becomes a WEEE. Some of them are concerned by the RoHS directive (RoHS for Reduction of Hazardous Substances). This directive put limits of concentration for six substances: Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Chrome VI, PBB (PolyBromoBiphénols) and PBDE (PolyBromoDiphényls Ethers) (PBB and PBDE are brominated flame retardants, they create Dioxine when they burn).