Recycling

WEEE Information for Customers and Recyclers

Under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and implementing regulations, when customers buy new electrical and electronic equipment from Thermo Fisher Scientific they are entitled to:

  • Send old equipment for recycling on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis (this varies depending on the country)
  • Send the new equipment back for recycling when this ultimately becomes waste

Compliance with the European Union’s Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment Directive

Products with this symbol are required to comply with the European Union’s Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2002/96/EC. 

 

If you are a user of Thermo Scientific products and are located within Europe and you need to have our products recycled within the terms of the WEEE Directive, your product must have been purchased on or after 13 August 2005 and should be marked with the WEEE symbol. 

 

Thermo Scientific products will continue to meet the requirements of all relevant directives, including those of RoHS if /where applicable. Any of our products affected by or coming into the RoHS scope for the first time, as a result of the inclusion in the recast directive of product categories 8, 9 or (the new) 11, changes to the exclusions or changes to exempted applications, will meet these new requirements from their due dates, or enable a finished product into which they may be incorporated to do so.

 

Please note: Products that are considered as a biological hazard or have been medically contaminated are not to be recycled through this program, but must be treated as bio-hazard waste and disposed of in accordance with your local regulations.

Commonly asked questions:

WEEE arrangements for European countries

According to the EU Directive 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and the EU Council on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and the revised EU Directive 2012/19/EU, there is an obligation to organize and finance collection, treatment and disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment in accordance with the before mentioned regulations. According to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) in Germany, every producer is obliged to create a reasonable possibility to return waste electrical equipment from users other than private households.

 

We take our responsibility seriously and ensure a high-quality recycling process for our products when they become waste. For devices that have been used commercially or in public institutions – socalled B2B devices - we have provided convenient return and disposal solutions for you.

 

FEI Electron Optics BV has concluded a recycling agreement with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN Elektroaltgeräte Service GmbH) so to organize the transport, preparation for re-use, recycling and recovery of WEEE with certified recycling partners. FEI Electron Optics BV bears the costs for the treatment, recycling and recovery of FEI Electron Optics BV products. In return, FEI Electron Optics BV asks its customers to bear the costs of transport to the certified recycling company.

Possibility of returning and disposing of old appliances

You would like to dispose of an electrical appliance purchased from FEI Electron Optics BV correctly. You have the option of instructing a carrier of your choice or an appropriate parcel service to send the waste electrical equipment to our recycling partner.

 

Please click on the link below and fill out the form. A file will then be created containing the address data of the responsible recycling company, the sender details (your data) and other information necessary for processing. Please print out this file and attach the printout in a clearly visible position on the consignment containing the waste electrical equipment for dispatch. You will also receive this information and the file separately by e-mail.

Personal responsibility with regard to the deletion of personal data

We explicitly point out that according to § 19a ElektroG you are responsible to delete any personal data on the appliances considered for disposal.

Meaning of the symbol for the marking of electrical appliances

The symbol of the crossed-out wheeled bin on electrical appliances indicates that they must be collected separately and means that they must not be disposed of with household waste.

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