{"id":20654,"date":"2024-03-22T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=20654"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:43:20","slug":"webinar-your-obligations-under-the-waste-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/webinar-your-obligations-under-the-waste-regs\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Your obligations under the waste regs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A special webinar for the lighting industry | Thursday 11 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lighting manufacturers, importers, contractors, end users and specifiers all have specific responsibilities under environmental legislation when it comes to dealing with waste.<\/p>\n<p>There are legal duties regarding the sale of new lighting, and the storage, transport, and reporting of waste lighting, most of which is now classified as hazardous. What is more, the legislation is changing, with new digital waste tracking due to start in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Environmental Duty Of Care Regulations,<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Hazardous Waste Regulations,<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations,<\/p>\n<p>place an array of legal duties and licensing requirements on<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 lighting producers,<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 distributors,<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 and contractors<\/p>\n<p>which they must discharge if they are to be compliant with the law.<\/p>\n<p>To help the lighting sector understand the requirements of the regulations and its associated guidance, Recolight \u2013 the lighting industry\u2019s leading WEEE compliance organisation \u2013 is to hold a special webinar on the subject at 11am on Thursday 11 April 2024. It\u2019s free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>Recolight experts \u2013 including chief executive officer Nigel Harvey and collections development manager Lyndsey Tweddle \u2013 will explore the regulatory landscape and the options available to comply, including the comprehensive services offered by Recolight.<\/p>\n<p>They will share their advice and experience, giving you the knowledge you need to fully comply with the spirit and letter of the law. They will also assess forthcoming regulations, so you are prepared for the future legislative landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special webinar for the lighting industry | Thursday 11 April Lighting manufacturers, importers, contractors, end users and specifiers all have specific responsibilities under environmental legislation when it comes to dealing with waste. There are legal duties regarding the sale of new lighting, and the storage, transport, and reporting of waste lighting, most of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20655,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions\/20655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}