Take the WEEE Challenge
17th, March 2009
Take the Producers 5 Minute Online Challenge “Megaman UK Ltd Didâ€
Megaman (UK) Ltd is one of the UK’s leading producers of energy saving lighting products. In 2008 Weeeco undertook an internal audit of their producer compliance and established that in the rush to compliance in 2007 they had misinterpreted and misunderstood the options for compliance available to them.
Weeeco identified that Megaman would make significant savings by simply
- Producing a sound Methodology for identifying the amounts of products going to B2C or B2B
- Stopping the erroneous recording B2C Category 5 in their EA returns
- Stopping the erroneous recording OEM sales in their EA Returns
- Operate a policy of B2B sales under regulation 9.2
- Pay a levy against their Market Share Obligation rather than per item placed
The recommendations were implemented and Megaman and Weeeco set up a joint venture called WEEE Lite to challenge the current offer that exists in the B2C market for businesses who do not understand their options. In 2009 Megaman will benefit from an 80% reduction in there compliance costs.
The issues to note here are
- The producer compliance schemes are not compelled to give best advice
- The producer is responsible for understanding regulations and sourcing their producer compliance scheme
- The producer is responsible for deciding what Category and Obligation it records in EA returns
Weeeco believe many producers are not aware of the options they have to comply and assume that producer compliance schemes will give best advice.
“We are passionate in the belief that Market Share Obligation payments should be wholly transparent when contracting B2C Compliance and Challenge you to take the 5 minute WEEE producers challenge”
All you need to do is click on the 'WEEE Producers Challenge' button on the left hand side of the home page.
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