A report published by Defra last week has suggested that the WEEE collection target for 2017 has been missed. As a result of this, compliance schemes are to expect a seven figure compliance fee to pay.
Several Producer Compliance Schemes have explained that the figures are not a complete disaster. Some have said that the UK remains on target to meet EU targets once substantiated estimates are taken into account.
UK Compliance Schemes collected 522,901 tonnes of WEEE in 2017, which was 14% short of the target of 621,990 tonnes. This means fees will have to be paid by compliance schemes if they did not meet their individual obligation. This is approximately calculated by the average cost of collection multiplied by how far away they are from the target.