Producers of equipment - marking your products

If you produce electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you must mark all of your goods with the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol. This must be a visible, legible and permanent marking on your product. This will help separate waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) from other waste streams.

Only in exceptional circumstances when the product is far too small can this marking be printed on the packaging, instructions for use or the accompanying warranty.

This marking must also include a:

  • producer’s identification mark that easily identifies the producer of the equipment (this is normally a brand logo or brand name)
  • thick bar underneath the wheeled bin symbol to show that the product was placed on the market after 13 August 2005.

Marking household products

You can choose to show purchasers the cost of collecting, treating and recovering WEEE when they purchase new EEE. This only applies to household WEEE and only until 2011, or 2013 for large household appliances.

If you display this cost, you must make sure that:

  • it does not exceed the actual cost of collecting, treating, recovering and reprocessing an equivalent item of historic WEEE
  • you provide details of how the costs have been calculated. You can put these details on your website and provide purchasers with the web address
  • it can be clearly identified to avoid people confusing it with the purchase price of the new product.

In this guideline: