Posted By Tracey C
Good Morning all,

Could somebody please help me with a query as i cannot seem to wrap my head around things today. Our supplier of light bulbs is charging us 20p per bulb in conjunction with the WEEE Directive but we also pay another company to uplift the old bulbs for recycling. If our supplier was charging us for uplifting then fine but he has said they don't do uplifts? Am i missing something here or are we paying for something that we shouldn't???

I would have thought as a supplier they have an obligation to uplift the old bulbs or am i reading this all wrong??

Any help would be greatly apprecited.

Thanks in advance.

T

Posted By Heather Collins
We have the same issue. Although the distributor has no take-back obligation for non-domestic EEE(unless they are rebranding it to sell under their own label or importing it themselevs) the original producer does and should be able to advise you as the end user.

Ask your distributor for their producer's registration number which they are legally obliged to provide and then contact the producer to ask what arrangements they have made under a Producer Complaince Scheme. We're about to go through this process as the charge we're getting was simply added to invoices with no prior notice. I bet if the rest of you take a look at your electrical consumable supplier's recent invoices you'll see the same.

Let us know how you get on!