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UK government takes the WEEE out of IT retailers
Small firms up in arms, incandescent
Fri Jun 08 2007, 15:04
A TRADE BODY is petitioning the UK government in a bid to persuade it to re-examine what it describes as the
"disproportionate" cost of the WEEE regulations.
The Indepedent Trade Assocation of Computing Specialists (ITACS) said that the European directive, which encourages re-cycling of electronic equipment is unfair because it favours giant retailers and penalises smaller ones. The disposal rules cause a 10-24 per cent reduction in price competitiveness, it claims.
Plus ITACS claimed that while small retailers have systems for re-cycling, big retailers don't have equivalent systems in place.
The online petition is here. µ
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