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WEEE Directive: This Directive was implemented in February 2003, focusing on recycling electronic waste. This Directive offered many electronic waste collection schemes free of charge to the consumers (Directive 2002/96/EC ). The EC revised this Directive in December 2008, since this has become the fastest growing waste stream.
Under the directive, each country recycles at least 4 kg of electronic waste per capita per year. Furthermore, the Directive should "decrease e-waste and e-waste exports.". [ 10 ] In December 2008 a draft revision to the Directive proposed a market-based goal of 65%, which is 22 kg per capita in the case of the United Kingdom. [ 11 ]
Electronic Waste Recycling Act can refer to: California Electronic Waste Recycling Act, passed in 2003; E-Cycle Washington, a Washington State, US law, passed in 2006; Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, in Europe, passed in 2003
Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. [1]Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used.
The directive imposes the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment on the manufacturers or distributors of such equipment. [5] It requires that those companies establish an infrastructure for collecting WEEE, in such a way that "Users of electrical and electronic equipment from private households should have the possibility of returning WEEE at least free of ...
Maintaining the temporary modification of rates of import duty on certain agricultural products under Section 1611 of Republic Act No. 10863, otherwise known as the “Customs Modernization and Tariff Act” [13] 14 Approving and adopting the Philippine Development Plan for the period 2023-2028 January 27, 2023 [14] 15
One city suffering from the negative results of the hazardous waste trade is Guiyu, China, which has been called the electronic waste dump of the world. It may be the world's largest e-waste dump, with workers dismantling over 1.5 million pounds of junked computers, cell phones and other electronic devices per year. [18]
Temporarily Modifying the Rates of Import Duty on Rice Under Section 1611 of Republic Act No. 10863, Otherwise Known as the "Customs Modernization and Tariff Act" [135] 136 Creating the Philippine Trade Facilitation Committee in Compliance With the World Trade Organization – Trade Facilitation Agreement May 18, 2021 [136] 137