34
Deferred
Recycling methods covered by Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques, and recycling and recovery...
Recommendation
Recycling methods covered by Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques, and recycling and recovery targets must be ambitious with a shift away from recovery towards high-quality recycling. There must be a clearly defined and communicated long-term pathway, with milestones, showing when and how E-waste treatment centres must improve their recycling of E-waste to capture as many materials as possible and remove toxic chemicals. This clear pathway will allow businesses to raise finance and invest in advance to reach these mandatory targets. (Paragraph 134) Recommendation 22
Government Response Summary
The government states that a shift to higher-quality recycling would require more challenging targets. They note that existing Best Available Treatment (BAT) and Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT) standards are being reviewed, with new enhanced guidance planned for consultation in early 2021.
Government Response
Deferred
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
Any shift from recovery towards more high-quality recycling would need to be achieved through the setting of more challenging recycling targets. Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT) sets standards that promote best practice in WEEE treatment and protect the environment but does so within the existing regulatory framework. BATRRT is an extension of the principles of Best Available Treatment (BAT), which is set out in legislation governing Industrial Emissions in operations that undertake the recovery and recycling of WEEE, and this is currently being reviewed by the Environment Agency. New overarching guidance will incorporate BAT, BATRRT and other appropriate measures all in one place. The Agency is currently working closely with industry and formal consultation on new enhanced guidance is planned for early 2021.
Source
Committee
Environmental Audit Committee
Report
First Report - Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy
26 Nov 2020
HC 220
Timeline
Recommendation age
5.7 yrs
Report published
26 Nov 2020