WEEE compliance Italy

Collection and Recycling Arrangements in Italy

The Italian Legislative Decree No. 49 of March 14, 2014 transposes the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2012/19/EU.

For equipment that you buy from the Barco after December 31st 2010, Barco is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. This is providing the weight of the old equipment is less than double that of the new purchase. The old equipment that your new purchase from Barco replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE.

Under the Decree, Barco is also required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from Barco after December 31st 2010, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE.

In Italy, Barco has joined the ECOlight compliance scheme to manage all aspects of WEEE collection and recycling. Please contact ECOlight directly to understand what arrangements have been made to allow Barco customers to send waste equipment for recycling: