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Electronic Equipment: Recycling

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 242729, tabled on 9 April 2019

Question

Paul Farrelly
Labour
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the introduction of an electronic waste recycling fee on new purchases of electronic products.

Answer

Dr Thérèse Coffey
Conservative
Suffolk Coastal
Commons

Answered on

15 April 2019

The current Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations are based on producer responsibility where producers have a financial obligation to pay for the environmentally sound collection, treatment and recycling of electronic products when they become waste. The Government has committed to reviewing the current WEEE system by 2020. This will involve consultation across Government and with interested stakeholders.

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