WEEE Compliance
Collection and Recycling Information for Smiths Medical CustomersSmiths Medical sells electrical and electronic equipment to EC Member States. Click on the first letter of the country you are looking for e.g. ‘S’ for Spain or Sweden and collection and recycling arrangements for Smiths Medical products in your country will be displayed.
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| Collection and Recycling Arrangements in Portugal | ||||||||||||
| Under Decree 230/2004 for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which came into force on August 13th 2005, for equipment that you buy from Smiths Medical after August 13th 2005, Smiths Medical is required to finance the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. The old equipment that your new purchase from Smiths Medical replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE. Under the Decree, Smiths Medical is also required to finance the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from Smiths Medical after August 13th 2005, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as new WEEE. Smiths Medical products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Smiths Medical is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products Smiths Medical has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers. We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address. Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs are:
Smiths Medical has established a recycling contract with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) and will cover any costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the equipment on arrival at the EARN facility in Portugal. All New WEEE that arises from the purchase of Smiths Medical products is classed as non-hazardous waste. Under Portuguese waste management procedures, you should use the following carriers (which have been granted a general license by the Direcção-Geral dos Transportes Terrestres e Fluviais for the road transportation of goods). The carrier will collect and transport non-hazardous WEEE to the EARN recycler.
In order to help EARN identify Smiths Medical equipment upon arrival to the recyclers' address, please click on the link below to download the recycling label to be used. Please complete this label with your company details and attach it to a suitable box for transport to EARN.  Recycling label for Customers in Portugal (North) Recycling label for Customers in Portugal (South) |
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| Under Article 22 of Decree 230/2004, Smiths Medical must provide annual information of the quantities and categories of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market, reused, recycled and recovered within Portugal. The first WEEE recycling report will cover the period February 2006 to January 2007. EARN will prepare the recycling data report for Smiths Medical. Information in the EARN recycling data report will be summarised on the Smiths Medical website when it becomes available.
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