The scheme has written to its waste management partners to update them ahead of the meeting with BERR, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, scheduled for tomorrow.
One of the issues concerns the funding of collection arrangements and associated documentary evidence of recycling activities.
Electrolink has written to the Environment Agency about the timeframe for producer schemes to buy evidence for the 2007 period.
Meanwhile, new guidance from the Environment Agency sent to schemes this week stated that for the first compliance period of July-December 2007, evidence auditing does not now have to be submitted until May 2008.
Electrolink, part of the compliance business Wastepack, has a surplus of WEEE evidence because it is working with more designated collection facilities (DCFs) than are needed to cover the recycling obligations of its producer members.
The scheme, which is based in Harlow, Essex, is trying to arrange a meeting between the Agency, BERR, Electrolink and its contractors or local authority partners for February 1 to discuss the latest developments.
Guidance
The new guidance on WEEE recycling evidence is being finalised and is now expected to be published on the Agency's website towards the end of this week. This guidance lays out “how to issue evidence of treatment, reuse, recovery and recycling” under the amended WEEE Regulations, which came into force at the start of 2008.
It includes a “quick guide” to issuing evidence notes as well as details on evidence including when notes can be issued, how re-use and exports are handled in evidence, and how to take account of Defra's protocols (see letsrecycle.com story).
The new guidance also highlights the role of the Settlement Centre in co-ordinating evidence and details what information is needed to support any evidence notes issued.
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