On 14 June 2018, the Official Journal of the European Union published the EU Waste legislative package. This revises the Waste Framework Directive, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, the Waste Batteries directive and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. EucoLight, the European Association of lighting WEEE Compliance schemes warmly welcomes the EU […]
70 delegates from 18 lighting WEEE compliance schemes meet for the EucoLight annual conference The third EucoLight Conference at Sassenheim, the Netherlands, gathered 70 delegates from the community of producers’ responsibility organisations for lighting. Delegates discussed the latest developments in collection and treatment of end-of-life lighting products as the transition towards a circular economy in […]
The issue of free riding is one of growing concern in light of distance sales already representing up to 20 and 30 per cent of the market across various waste streams in certain Member States. In a bid to solve this problem, the three organizations propose online sellers and fulfilment houses to be required to […]
On 13 September over 80 delegates from across 12 different countries met to discuss ways to tackle the growing number of online market places that fail to be WEEE compliant with the EEE regulations. This is referred to as freeriding. The introductory speaker Peter Börkey of the OECD presented initial findings suggesting that online freeriding […]
At a seminar on 13 September 2017 in Brussels, the WEEE Forum and EucoLight, two European trade associations that speak for e-waste producer responsibility organisations, will facilitate a high-level debate around the compliance of online retail platforms with EU e-waste (WEEE) legislation and ways to address free-riding behaviour among online sellers. The OECD will present […]
These are the findings of a survey conducted by the market research institute GfK on behalf of EucoLight across Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Romania The main difficulties encountered concern differentiating energy-saving lamps from LED lamps and how to recycle them. EucoLight, the European Association for lighting WEEE compliance schemes, has conducted a […]
The final step of the adoption of the EU Waste legislative package is in the informal Trilogue phase. The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission are finalising the text of the proposal to amend the Directive on Waste. This proposal includes minimum extended responsibility requirements. EucoLight has been advocating for legally binding minimum […]
Brussels, 31 March 2017 – On March 14 2017, the European Parliament (EP) adopted its position on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and the Waste Batteries Directive based on the reports of its member, Ms Simona Bonafè. Notably the amendments to the Waste Framework Directive […]
Delegates from 18 lighting WEEE compliance schemes and their lighting producer board members met at the second EucoLight Conference in Bratislava to discuss and share insight into challenges faced with the WEEE lighting. Mr. Marián Stryček, WEEE expert at the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic and counsellor to the EU Presidency, shared […]
