Last month’s introduction of the EU’s electronics recycling legislation is a prelude to a more direct intervention in materials the industry uses. Paul Dempsey reports.
Paul Dempsey, EDA Tech Forum Editor-in-Chief
This August, the European Union began the formal legal deployment of one of its most controversial pieces of legislation in recent times, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.
With its requirements for a producer-pays regime governing the EU-wide recycling and safe disposal of most electronic equipment and its component materials, WEEE has certainly grabbed the headlines.
In part, controversial and shocking images of piles of e-garbage being sorted by some of the poorest people in the developing world – often including children - have justified the need for something to be done.
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