The UK's WEEE regulations do not place specific recycling targets for business equipment on producers, based on the annual weight of products placed on the business market Ð this is only for household products (Do WEEE know enough? Sandra Smith's blog, sandrasmith.computing.co.uk).

Instead, producers simply have to arrange to pay for the collection and recycling of any affected business equipment. This is quite different from having a weight-based annual quota to achieve.

Sadly, this does not necessarily encourage manufacturers to promote responsible environmental policies such as WEEE recycling to their business clients.

What we really need is an educational campaign by the Environment Agency making businesses fully aware of their WEEE rights.

Keith Pryde