WEEE compliance in Europe

Environmental responsibilities for product end-of-life

As part of the European Commission Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, Cambridge Broadband Networks shares a responsibility with its UK customers to ensure that products that have reached their useful end-of-life are recycled at an approved Authorised Treatment Facility to minimise the impact on the environment.

To be compliant with the WEEE Directive, European customers outside of the UK should contact their local re-seller for recycling or, if the products were purchased directly from Cambridge Broadband Networks (referred to as “Distance Selling” in the WEEE Directive), they will need to make their own recycling arrangements.

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Important commercial implications

Cambridge Broadband Networks products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Cambridge Broadband Networks is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products, Cambridge Broadband Networks has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers.

We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address. Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs is:

  • Cambridge Broadband Networks pays for the costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the WEEE by Coolrec to meet the targets set by the WEEE Regulations;
  • Cambridge Broadband Networks pays for the costs of data management and reporting to the Environment Agency to demonstrate compliance with all administrative requirements of the WEEE Regulations;
  • You pay for transportation of your WEEE to Coolrec.

What you need to do

If you are a UK customer and have a Cambridge Broadband Networks product that has reached its useful end-of-life the you should

  1. Contact Cambridge Broadband Networks using the recycling email (recycling@cbnl.com) address.

    Cambridge Broadband Networks will email a Waste Transfer Note and list of Licensed Waste Carriers that you can use to return the end-of-life products to our Authorised Treatment Facility (Coolrec) for recycling.

  2. Contact your nearest approved Licensed Waste Carrier from the list to arrange and pay for transportation of WEEE from your business premises to Coolrec.

As stated in our terms and conditions of sale, it is your responsibility to pay for WEEE collection using one of our approved Licensed Waste Carriers.