1. Your responsibilities
You must provide a way for your customers to dispose of their old household electrical and electronic equipment when you sell them the same goods new.
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations apply regardless of how you sell the products, whether direct or by internet, mail order or telephone.
You must do 1 of the following:
- provide a free, in-store, take back service to your customers
- set up an alternative, free take back service
- join the Distributor Takeback Scheme (DTS)
Read the full WEEE regulations guidance for more information.
Report a distributor that is breaking the regulations.
Tell your customers which service you provide
You must provide free written information to your customers on:
- which take back service you provide
- how they can reuse and recycle electrical and electronic equipment
- why this waste needs to be separated from other waste
- the damaging effects of not recycling electrical and electronic equipment
- the meaning of the wheelie bin symbol
