Under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and implementing regulations, when customers buy new electrical and electronic equipment from Polymer Laboratories Varian they are entitled to:
Instruments sold after 13th August 2005 will also be recycyled under WEEE.
For information on how to recycle goods under WEEE please visit our WEEE help pages.
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) aims to minimise the impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment, by increasing re-use and recycling and reducing the amount of WEEE going to landfill. It seeks to achieve this by making producers responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment.
Polymer Laboratories Varian and RoHS
The Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive and implementing regulations limit the use of six named hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. Instruments manufactured by Polymer Laboratories Varian fall within WEEE Annex IA Category 9, 'Monitoring and Control Instruments' and so are currently excluded from the scope of the RoHS Directive. This exclusion will last until at least 2010 and probably until 2012. Polymer Laboratories Varian are working towards making our products RoHS compliant.
EC Directive on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) 2002/95/EC
The Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive aims to mimimise the environmental impact of electrical and electronic equipment when it reaches the end of its life. The six substances currently restricted are: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB's) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's).
Please click here for further information on the WEEE & RoHS Directives.