Hazardous Electrowaste

The following list of equipment is considered Hazardous Waste at their
end-of-life:

  • CRT containing equipment: televisions, monitors, oscilloscopes etc
  • Fluorescent tubes, crushed fluorescent tubes, low pressure and high pressure sodium lamps, mercury containing lamps.
  • Equipment with ODS (ozone depleting substances): freezers, fridges, compression fridges.

Any WEEE which has the following components:

  • Capacitors (with PCBs or PCTs)
  • Transformers (with PCBS or PCTs)
  • Transformers with oil cooling systems
  • Lead acid batteries (drained/undrained)
  • Nickel cadmium batteries, mercury batteries, mercury switches.

The following list of equipment may be considered Hazardous Waste if they contain dangerous substances at their end-of-life:

  • X-ray equipment
  • Photocopiers
  • Cookers & microwave cookers
  • Electrical cable/wire
  • Printed circuit boards

Hazardous Waste Premises Code:

If you are an organisation in England and Wales and you produce more than 200kg of hazardous electro-waste per annum (equivalent to about 12 computer monitors), then you are required to register your premises with the Environment Agency and obtain a premises code for your site.

If you do not have a HWPC, Electrocycle can register your site(s) on your behalf for as little as £25 per site. To request a collection and recycling quote please call us on 0845 680 0668 or use the online WEEE Collections Quote Page stating the number of sites requiring HWPCs in the Any Special Requirements box.

If you produce less than 200kg of Hazardous Waste (including hazardous waste other than electro-waste) then you do not have to register your premises if you are listed below: 

(a) office premises, to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises as an office;
(b) shop premises, to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises as a shop;
(c) premises used for agriculture within the meaning of the Agriculture Act 1947[31], to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises for agriculture;
(d) premises of a description listed in -  (i) paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 75(5) of the 1990 Act; or (ii) Schedule 1 to the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992[32];
(e) premises at which waste electrical and electronic equipment is collected, to the extent that the premises are used for that purpose;
(f) premises used by a dental, veterinary or medical practice, to the extent that the premises are used for that purpose; and
(g) any ship.