Our Role under the WEEE Directive

Last updated: 24 March 2010

Contact our WEEE Team on:

Tel: 028 9056 9387
Email: weee@doeni.gov.uk

We are responsible for:

approving producer compliance schemes
registering producers of EEE and maintaining a public register
identifying unregistered producers and bringing them into compliance
regulating sites that store and treat WEEE
approving treatment facilities and exporters of WEEE so that they are able to issue evidence of treatment and recovery
monitoring and enforcing compliance with the treatment and recovery requirements.

WEEE Pilot Scheme

Starting in June 2004 and ending in January 2005, The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) carried out an eight month pilot scheme into the separate collection and recycling of household WEEE at two recycling centres in Northern Ireland.
Note: On 1 July 2008, EHS became NIEA.

View the WEEE Pilot Scheme Report, May 2005(.PDF 3.12Mb)

WEEE and Disposal of Hazardous Waste

Since July 2004, the Landfill Directive has banned the co-disposal of hazardous wastes with other types of waste. The revised European Waste Catalogue includes a number of waste streams not previously considered to be hazardous, including:

fluorescent tubes
television sets
computer monitors

For more information on hazardous waste, or the movement of waste outside of Northern Ireland, you can visit the Hazardous Waste and Transfrontier Shipments of Waste sections on our website.

You can also contact the Hazardous Waste / Transfrontier Shipment (TFS) Team:

Tel: 028 9056 9710 or 028 9056 0742
Fax: 028 9056 9310
Email: tfs@doeni.gov.uk