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EU Improves Legislation to Control E-waste

Update time : 2022-05-17 16:31:03

Recently, the European Parliament passed a product maintenance right bill to improve the durability and maintainability of electrical appliances. The European Parliament said that the right to repair products is an important part of the EU's new circular economy action plan. The introduction of the new bill not only hopes that the products can be more durable and safer in design, but also hopes that the product parts can be easier to disassemble and repair, so as to facilitate consumers to make sustainable use choices.

E-waste is an informal term for the so-called "waste electrical and electronic equipment" (WEEE). It refers to the obsolete household appliances and electronic appliances, such as computers and refrigerators, which are no longer used. E-waste may contain metals such as gold, copper and nickel, which can be recycled, but at the same time, raw materials such as mobile phones also contain arsenic, cadmium, lead and other persistent and bio-accumulative toxic substances, threatening the surrounding environment.
According to the analysis of EU authorities, in order to completely solve this problem, the EU should strive to make electrical appliances "repairable" and "easy to repair". Effective maintenance right should fully consider the product life cycle, and the product design and production process should be standardized. At present, as part of product labels, the European Parliament requires manufacturers to provide QR codes and digital product passports, indicating product composition information, so as to improve the chances of products being reused and recycled. When selling goods, businesses should inform consumers of product maintainability, expected service life, difficulty in obtaining spare parts, maintenance services and other information. The European Parliament calls for a joint and several liability mechanism between manufacturers and sellers for non-compliance. The EU also plans to ban the use of glue bonded batteries in electronic products from next year to facilitate consumers' replacement. At the same time, it requires that the system update of smart phones will not reduce the overall running speed of mobile phones, and the update is reversible. In order to meet the health and environmental challenges, the EU issued the directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment and the directive on banning the use of certain hazardous substances in electronic and electrical equipment in 2003, which restricts the use of several toxic materials in the manufacture of circuits and electronic products, and stipulates five priorities for the management and disposal of electronic waste: reduction, reuse, reuse, other utilization methods and disposal. In February last year, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the new action plan for circular economy, calling for more measures to be taken. By 2025, the urban waste recovery rate will reach 55%, 60% in 2030 and 65% in 2035, while the urban waste landfill rate will not exceed 10% by 2035.
In 2021, WEEE forum said that to successfully improve the recycling rate of e-waste requires the participation of everyone, including consumers, and awareness is the key to action. It is expected that government departments, manufacturing enterprises, sales enterprises, maintenance enterprises, consumers and other parties can take responsibility to promote the development of electrical treatment in the direction of industrialization, specialization and industrialization, so as to truly make e-waste a treasure worth digging.

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