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Fercodis and the Ecolec Foundation sign agreement to facilitate the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment from households
20/03/2007
March 20, 2007
The Ecolec Foundation has announced the signing of an agreement with the national group of hardware stores and supplies industrial (Fercodis) which is intended to determine the conditions in which establishments and shops attached to this group will receive and be stored (temporarily) the WEEE from customers in the acts of purchase. The mechanics of collection of waste from businesses by the Ecolec Foundation has also been established in this agreement.
The agreement, ratified by Enrique Hernández, Manager of Fercodis and José Ramón Carbajosa, director-general of the Ecolec Foundation, gives assurance to the article 4.2 of the RD 208/2005 which States that: "…cuando the user acquires a new product, which is of equivalent type or perform the same functions as the apparatus that is discarded"", you can deliver it in the event of the purchase to the Distributor, who must receive it temporarily, provided that it contains the essential components and do not include other waste not belonging to the apparatus". And it offers like advantage partners to Fercodis that these will not have to bear any additional cost to ensure that the recovered WEEE are recycled and treated in accordance with the environmental standards of the Royal Decree.
On the other hand the signing of this agreement solves the problems of management of WEEE that were having shops since the entry into force of the RD, since these are obliged to receive and store the electrical and electronic equipment out of use of its customersWhen they made a purchase of replacement.
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