Compliance with Environmental legislation is high on the priority list for all those who work at Total Postweigh International Ltd. and we have tried to describe below how we manage our own Environmental issues and also help our customers where possible.

Total produce and distribute electrical equipment onto the market and as such we are bound by WEEE regulations. Many people may not be aware of what WEEE is and/or how it affects them, that is why Total are registered with a WEEE compliance agency to help our customers, when they wish to dispose of old unwanted items.

WEEE is a huge spectrum of products from computers, printers and faxes, to washing machines, fridges and even fluorescent tubes. At least one million tonnes of WEEE from domestic and commercial sources is discarded in the UK every year. And this figure is growing. We need to take action now.

The WEEE Directive is European environmental legislation. It aims to address the environmental impacts of WEEE, and to encourage its separate collection, and subsequent treatment, re-use, recovery, recycling and environmentally sound disposal.

Another piece of environmental legislation, with which Total has to comply and be aware of is the RoHS Directive (the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment) which came into force on 1st July 06. This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants. With the new regulations impacting on us all, we take our responsibilities with regards to the correct disposal of electronic equipment very seriously and again have facilities in place to make sure that we comply fully and can help our customers every step of the way.