Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 34
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Recycling methods covered by Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques, and recycling and recovery...
Conclusion
Recycling methods covered by Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques, and recycling and recovery targets must be ambitious with a shift away from recovery towards high-quality recycling. There must be a clearly defined and communicated long-term pathway, with milestones, showing when and how E-waste treatment centres must improve their recycling of E-waste to capture as many materials as possible and remove toxic chemicals. This clear pathway will allow businesses to raise finance and invest in advance to reach these mandatory targets. (Paragraph 134) Recommendation 22
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
Any shift from recovery towards more high-quality recycling would need to be achieved through the setting of more challenging recycling targets. Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT) sets standards that promote best practice in WEEE treatment and protect the environment but does so within the existing regulatory framework. BATRRT is an extension of the principles of Best Available Treatment (BAT), which is set out in legislation governing Industrial Emissions in operations that undertake the recovery and recycling of WEEE, and this is currently being reviewed by the Environment Agency. New overarching guidance will incorporate BAT, BATRRT and other appropriate measures all in one place. The Agency is currently working closely with industry and formal consultation on new enhanced guidance is planned for early 2021.