The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has made public information of the WEEE collection deals which councils have gotten into with producer compliance schemes.
The information shows that the Producer Compliance Scheme run by ERP Recycling possesses the biggest number of contracts with councils for the collection of waste electrical equipment from their respective collection facilities and centres.
Fifty seven out of one hundred and eighty one local authorities listed in the report gave ERP Recycling clearance to collect WEEE from their sites, thus making ERP Recycling emerge as the most preferred by the local councils.
Others which closely followed behind included Valpak whose Producer Compliance Scheme got clearance from thirty five councils and Electrolink whose Producer Compliance Scheme got clearance from twenty six councils. The Producer Compliance Schemes of DHL, Veolia and REPIC were favoured by most of the remaining local authorities. Eight other companies each held contracts with between one and seven councils.
Before the introduction of the WEEE regulations in the May of 2007, the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform urged councils to get into six to eighteen months contracts with a Producer Compliance Scheme.
The general manager of ERP UK, Scott Butler, disclosed that his company had secured approximately a fifteen per cent market share. He added that they had faced a number of challenges while operating under WEEE regulations initially and chief among them was the limited time period. However he expressed satisfaction at what they had been able to achieve within the short time frame they found themselves in.
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