WEEE Recycling in Ireland

Collection and Recycling Arrangements in Ireland

Under SI 340/2005 Waste Management (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment [WEEE]) Regulations which came into force on August 13th 2005, for equipment that you buy from CommScope after August 13th 2005, CommScope is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. The old equipment that your new purchase from CommScope replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE. The 2005 regulations have since been replaced by WEEE Regulation SI 149/2014 which was published on March 28th 2014; however, the same requirements apply.

Under the Regulations, CommScope is also required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from CommScope after August 13th 2005, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE.

CommScope products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as CommScope is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products, CommScope has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers. We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address.

Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs is:

• CommScope pays for the costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the WEEE to meet the targets set by the Waste Management (WEEE) Regulations;
• CommScope pays for the costs of data management and reporting to the WEEE Register Society to demonstrate compliance with all administrative requirements of the Waste Management (WEEE) Regulations;
• you pay for transportation of your WEEE to CommScope's appointed recycler in Ireland.

For CommScope’s professional use equipment in Ireland, CommScope has established a recycling contract with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) and will cover any costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the equipment on arrival at the EARN recycling facility in Ireland. All New WEEE that arises from the purchase of CommScope products is classed as non-hazardous waste.

It is your responsibility to arrange and pay for costs of collection and transportation to the recycler.

To request collection and transport of your WEEE to the recycler please use the following link: https://b2btool.earn-service.com/commscope/select

For further information please contact EARN directly by email:  office@earn-service.com

For CommScope’s consumer use products in Ireland, CommScope has joined the local WEEE compliance scheme ‘WEEE Ireland’ to manage all aspects of consumer use WEEE collection and recycling in Ireland. Please contact ‘WEEE Ireland’ to arrange collection of the WEEE.

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