Mr. Pitarys
I have attached a statement that we use to provide our customers with
details regarding the new Directives. Please forgive me if it is too
long and pedantic but I hope that you will be able to pick out any items
of relevance to you.

Alistair Murray
Technical Manager
Artetch Circuits Limited

What is the WEEE Directive?

The EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and
the complimentary EU Directive on the Restriction of the use of Certain
Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) are
designed to prevent electrical and electronic equipment from becoming
waste and to increase the level of recycling and recovery of WEEE. They
also seek to improve the environmental performance of all operators
involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment,
particularly those involved at the end-of-life stages.

The WEEE proposal is for a producer-responsibility Directive on waste
electrical and electronic equipment. It sets criteria for the
collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of such wastes and makes
producers responsible for financing most of these activities. There are
targets for recycling and recovery of materials and components from the
separately collected waste.

The Directive on WEEE will require the separation of plastics
containing brominated flame retardants (BFRs) prior to recycling,
energy recovery or disposal. In practice, in many EU countries,
separation of all flame-retardant plastics will be required for WEEE.
This is already a legislative requirement in Denmark.


RoHS Directive

From 01 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the
market shall not contain lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium,
poly-brominated biphenyls (PBB) or poly-brominated diphenyl ethers
(PBDE)
An Annex exists with a list of exempted uses for some of these
substances where substitutes are not yet available or it is not
technically feasible to find substitutes. 

Additional Notes

1)      The ROHS Directive gives producers a clear guarantee that no
individual EU Member State will be able to introduce separate bans or
restrictions on any other substance than those specified in the ROHS
Directive.
There are some 70 other brominated flame retardants that are not banned.

2)      Plastics containing brominated flame retardants offer a high
level of stability during the recycling process. The WEEE separation
requirement will, therefore, facilitate the recycling and recovery of
plastics containing brominated flame retardants for which there is a
wide range of tested recycling and recovery technologies.

3)      Halogen-free flame retardants in laminates have their own
environmental issues (phosphorous compounds) 


-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Charlie Pitarys
Sent: 23 February 2005 19:31
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] RoHS Cleaning Chemical Compliance

 
Greetings! Is there a list of approved and non-approved cleaning
chemicals for this specification? Are cleaning chemistries involved if
at all? I found perhaps 10 compounds (mostly metals) and the rest of the
spec seems pretty vauge.(re. massive Google Search) 
Is there a standard form to present to customers that your products are
in compliance or is it just a blanket faith statement? 
Thanks in advance.

Charlie Pitarys
Director of Application Technologies
603.622.2900 x-115

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