WEEE Regs

WEEE Regulations
 
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE) is now mandatory by UK law. With this regulation aiming to reduce the quantity of waste from electrical and electronic equipment and to encourage and promote the re-use and recycling of it. Encouraging the treatment, reuse,recovery, and sound disposal of WEEE.
It is designed to make producers like ourselves of EEE responsible for the environmental impact of our products. By having the WEEE regulation in place it should improve the environmental performance of the complete cycle taken place during the life cycle of EEE.
 
If you have purchased an electrical item from ourselves, by new UK law, it is our responsibility should you wish to return your electrical product for ourselves to dispose of it accordingly. As the new regulations underline that customers must be allowed to return their electronic waste to the suppliers free of charge.
 
The amount of WEEE which is thrown away every year is increasing by 5% each year, which means that this is the fastest growing waste in the United Kingdom.
 
The WEEE regulations only applies to electrical items, and does not apply to such items as non electrical items, such as jewellery.
 
Customers must return their WEEE item to ourselves within 28 days of purchasing their new item.
 
We are obliged under new law to offer our customers free take back of their products on a like-for-like basis when they buy a new electrical or electronic product from us.
 
It is Mandatory for all customers to make prior contact with us before returning WEEE products.
Should you wish to return your unused product under the WEEE regulations, please contact us at info@jewelleryjunkies.co.uk and we can give you further instructions on how you can do this.
 
Under the new WEEE Regulations, all new electrical goods should now be marked with the crossed out wheeled bin sign, which shows the symbol that they were produced after 13th August 2005, and that they should be disposed of separately from normal household waste, so that they can be recycled accordingly.