As an industry-leading not-for-profit producer compliance scheme, REPIC delivers trusted solutions to our producers members, local authorities, and retailers and distributors across the UK.
We offer a range of services to ensure our members comply with their legal obligations and support wider environmental objectives for the recycling of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE), batteries and packaging.
No matter what you’re looking for – whether its a one-stop shop compliance solution, support in arranging a takeback scheme, or even just regular industry updates – we’re here to help. Our members finance the costs of collection, transport, treatment and environmentally-sound recycling or disposal of WEEE, batteries and packaging.
Value, transparency and sustainability underpin everything we do, and our expert team is always on hand to provide trusted advice and support.
Across our compliance schemes for WEEE, batteries and packaging, we offer:
Producers
- One-stop standard or bespoke compliance solutions
- Member workshops, guidance, seminars, focus groups and meetings
- A member’s pack giving step-by-step instructions on ongoing compliance
- Access to a dedicated members only website area providing regular updates, guidance notes and essential compliance information
- Ongoing access to a secure, user-friendly member page to provide ongoing EEE, batteries and packaging data and other information updates
- Member Registration with the Environment Agency plus notification of your producer registration number, obligations and UK market share
- Annual confirmation of compliance with your producer obligations
- The provision of regular information on WEEE, batteries or packaging collected, cost updates and forecasts
Local Authorities/Local Authority Site Operators
- Access to a tailored PR fund for partner sites for local promotional activity to stimulate takeback of WEEE and batteries and maximise separate collection
- Uses your current approved reuse partners, transport and treatment partners unless otherwise requested
- Contracts for a mutually acceptable time period
- Guarantee to clear all WEEE and batteries
- A nominated account manager to act as your key interface
- Holds regional WEEE and battery workshops to provide you with regular updates
Distributors
- Containers, collection and transport for batteries and WEEE collected at or arising from in store or from collection on home delivery
- Bespoke solutions for retailers’ WEEE and battery collection needs
- Guidance on retailers responsibilities and rights under WEEE, batteries and packaging regulations
Treatment facilities
- Agreed rates and forecast tonnages in advance
- Payment in time and in full to mutually agreed terms
- Site audits providing valuable feedback
- Reports on collection location to enable evidence and environment agency reporting to be agreed
- Increasing volumes as our access to WEEE, battery and packaging grows
- To provide an individual collection plan for each site to mutually agreed service levels
- Work with you and our members to explore opportunities for closed loop recycling
- Work with you to consider ways in which you can enhance waste collection system with compliance funding
Other WEEE batteries and packaging collectors:
- An opportunity to become part of the growing REPIC collection partner network
- A mutually agreed collection plan for each collection facility in the network
- Acceptance of all legitimate separately collected WEEE, portable batteries
- Reporting of your WEEE, battery and packaging collections to the environment agency
