Glossary

The definitive list of legal definitions can be found within the UK Statutory Instrument 3289:2006 - and should be referred to there.

Recolight glossary of terms

ATF - Authorised Treatment Facility.

AATF - Approved Authorised Treatment Facility means a site which has the appropriate authorisations and approvals to carry out treatment of WEEE, as set out in WEEE Regulation 47.

Approved Exporter - an exporter who is approved under WEEE Regulation 47.

Compliance Scheme -  a legal arrangement to permit the passing of the Producer's Obligations incurred under the WEEE Regulations to a separate legal body - the Compliance Scheme. This body will then arrange the collection, recovery and recycling of WEEE streams on behalf of its registered Producers (see Participants) to meet their aggregated Environment Agency obligations as detailed within the WEEE Regulations.

Designated Collection Facilities (DCFs) -  any establishment or undertaking carrying out collection operations in respect of household WEEE and which is approved by the Secretary of State under Regulation 55.

Commercial Collection Points (CCPs) refer to a location, (other than DCF's), registered in the Recolight process, where significant quantities of WEEE are collected prior to transportation to an ATF. This would include both household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) - also known as a Civic Amenity sites, and also CCP's. Sites may be classified as 'open' or 'dedicated', the latter having access restricted to the site owner's business.

Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) - equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields falling under the categories set out in Annex 1A of the EU WEEE Directive EC 2002/94 and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1000 Volts for alternating current and 1500 Volt for direct current.

Gas Discharge Lamps pass an electrical current through an atmosphere of mercury or sodium to produce light via an electrical discharge. Discharge lighting occurs naturally as lightning. The passage of electrical current through the atmosphere (mainly nitrogen), 'excites' the nitrogen atoms to give out a bluish-white light during that split second of the discharge.

 Examples of gas discharge lamps include:

• fluorescent tubes
• compact fluorescent lamps
• metal halide lamps
• mercury blended lamps
• high pressure sodium lamps
• low pressure sodium lamps

GDLs form category 13 in the WEEE regulations.

Lighting Equipment/Luminaires: are used as a means of spreading or controlling light as described in schedule 2, category 5 of the UK WEEE regulations.

Historical WEEE  WEEE arising from products which were placed on the market before 13th August 2005.

Member - A producer which has joined the Recolight Scheme. This is the same as a Participant, where 'participant' represents the appropriate contractual language.

Operators - any Logistics companies or Recyclers (who may have a logistics operation) who will, under contract to Recolight, collect, transport, store, recycle and dispose of waste relating to their activities and in accordance with the relevant regulatory requirements.

Participant - a Producer which has signed up to join the Recolight Compliance Scheme and thereby passes their obligations under the WEEE Regulations to Recolight in return for financial subscriptions being paid to the Scheme. This is the same as a scheme Member.

Participation Agreement  - The Agreement which all Producers of Lamps agree to enter into in order to become a member/participant of the Recolight Compliance Scheme.The Agreement lays out the terms and conditions of participation including how the funds shall be raised to finance the collection and recycling of WEEE Lamps.

A Producer is anyone who:

• manufactures and sells electrical and electronic equipment under his own brand
• resells, under his own brand, equipment produced by other suppliers
• imports electrical and electronic equipment on a professional basis into a Member State

Recovery - a range of activities as defined (by 75/442/EEC, Annex IIB). It does not mean 'collection'.

Recycling - processing used materials in order to create new materials or products

Reuse - the utilisation of products or materials in their original form.

Separately collected waste - WEEE defined in Regulation 55 and Schedule 9 paras 5 and 6, that should be collected and reported separately at a DCF, including Gas Discharge lamps.

Treatment  - the activities outlined in Annex II of the WEEE Directive and UK SI 3289:2006

WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment including all related components, sub assemblies and consumables, which are part of the product at the time of discarding.

WEEE from private households - WEEE that comes from private households, together with that from commercial, industrial, institutional and other sources which, because of its nature and quantity, is similar to that from private households.