MEPS TIGHTEN EU ELECTRONIC WASTE RULES
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to tighten rules on disposing electronic waste, voting for tougher collection, recycling and re-use targets within a reformed European Union (EU) waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive.
MEPs have amended the proposals to include significantly tougher demands on EU member states regarding WEEE, setting them a tough task of collecting 85% of the e-waste they produce from 2016 (compared with 65% originally suggested by the European Commission). The parliament also added the demand that member ...
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