eWEEK Europe UK: UK Tightens Tech Recycling - While Toxic Waste Leaks To Africa

In the same week that the UK updated its electronics recycling laws, a Nigerian national has been questioned by police over the illegal export of waste technology
The UK has updated its main regulations governing the environmental disposal of used IT and other tech hardware but cases are still emerging of electronic waste being shipped illegally to developing countries for disposal.

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced that it has updated the UK's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment laws to help improve the amount of old technology hardware which is recycled and kept out of landfill.
WEEE directive delays

WEEE The WEEE directive was adopted by the EC in 2003 but wasn't actually enacted and enforced in UK law until mid 2007. EC authorities actually went as far as to issue a written warning to the UK government for dragging its heels over implementing the legislation.

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