WASTE ELECTRONICS DIRECTIVE MAKING WAVES IN PLASTICS INDUSTRY SAY EXPERTS
July 1st, 2007
BY DEIRDRE MASON IT has taken the UK government so long to implement the European Union's (EU) 'waste electrical and electronic' (WEEE) directive that plastics manufacturers are facing a review of the law in Brussels, before the ink on the British implementing legislation is dry. However, the early indications are that the vaunted 2008 review is unlikely to make any significant changes, precisely because the directive has come so recently into force in so many member states. The consensus at a recent European Commission expert workshop on the review was, ...
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