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Barnyarns WEEE Regulations

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is now UK law. The legislation aims to make producers pay for the collection, treatment and recovery of waste electrical equipment. The regulations also mean that suppliers of equipment like high street shops and internet retailers must allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.

The amount of WEEE we throw away is increasing by around 5% each year, making it the fastest growing waste stream in the UK.

• Much of the UK's WEEE ends up in landfill, where the lead and other toxins it contains can cause soil and water contamination. This can have a harmful effect on natural habitat, wildlife and also human health.

• Many electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled. Recycling items helps to save our natural finite resources and also reduced the environmental and health risks associated with sending electrical goods to landfill.

Distributors of new Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) have a part to play in reducing the amount of WEEE going into landfill sites.

BARNYARNS fully supports the legislation and offers all our customers free take-back of their WEEE items on a like-for-like basis when they buy a new Electrical or Electronic product from us.

For example, if you were to buy a craft light from us, we will accept a similar redundant craft light in return thereby preventing it going into a landfill site by disposing of it safely. Your redundant WEEE item should be returned, at your expense, to the address below within 28 days of purchase.

Barnyarns Ripon Limited
Canal Wharf
Bondgate Green Ripon
N.Yorks
HG4 1AQ

Under the WEEE Regulations, all new electrical goods should now be marked with the crossed out wheeled bin symbol shown below:



Goods are marked with this symbol to show that they were produced after 13th August 2005, and should be disposed of separately from normal household waste so that they can be recycled.