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A WEEE Compliance Scheme With Its Own Treatment Site
If you put electrical products on the UK market, the law says you fund their recycling and report what you sell. WERCS registers you, checks and files your data on time, and is backed by Waste Experts' own approved treatment facility, so the recycling behind your compliance is traceable.
- Approval number WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH
- A named account manager for every member
- Backed by an approved treatment facility in Huddersfield
WEEE Compliance Deadlines for Your Compliance Year
The regulator's dates for the year, with this month highlighted. Choose how you are registered, then pick any date to see what it means for you.
Find Your WEEE Obligations by How You Sell
Your obligations depend on your role in the supply chain and how much you place on the UK market. Pick the one that sounds like you.
If Your Name Is on the Product
- You are the producer, whether you make the product yourself or have it made for you.
- 5 tonnes or more a year means joining an approved compliance scheme.
- You report what you place on the market by category, split by household and non-household use.
If You Import Electrical Products
- The business that first places a product on the UK market is usually the producer.
- The same 5 tonne line decides whether you join a scheme or register direct.
- Products you import and sell on to other businesses still count, reported as non-household.
If You Sell Online
- Since 12 August 2025, online marketplaces are treated as producers for electrical products sold through them by overseas sellers.
- UK sellers with their own brand or imports have producer duties of their own.
- Selling to UK households also brings take-back duties.
If You Sell Electrical Products to Households
- Selling new electrical equipment brings take-back duties for the old equipment it replaces.
- If you also import or sell under your own brand, you have producer duties too.
- We help you work out which duties apply and how to meet them.
If You Place Under 5 Tonnes a Year
- You can register direct with the regulator as a small producer by 31 January.
- Or join a scheme, which registers you and handles your reporting.
- The threshold is measured on what you place on the UK market in the compliance year.
If You Place Batteries on the Market
- Portable battery producers placing over 1 tonne a year join a battery compliance scheme by 15 October.
- Batteries built into products count, as well as loose batteries.
- We work with approved battery compliance schemes to register and report for you.
What WEEE Scheme Membership Covers
One scheme and a named account manager, with the paperwork handled before each deadline rather than after it.
Data Returns, Checked Before They Are Filed
We check your placed-on-market data by category and by B2B or B2C before it goes to the regulator.
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Traceable Recycling
Your compliance is backed by Waste Experts' own approved treatment facility.
Registration With the Regulator
We register you as a member each year and keep your details current.
Audit Preparation
Soft audits and pre-audit data checks, so a regulator visit holds no surprises.
Collections When You Need Them
Nationwide WEEE and battery collections through Waste Experts.
A Producer Compliance Scheme That Treats What It Takes On
Many schemes meet their targets with evidence from other operators' sites. WERCS is run by Waste Experts, which operates its own approved treatment facility in Huddersfield, so the recycling behind your compliance happens where we can see it.
Our Own Approved Facility
Waste Experts operates its own approved treatment facility in Huddersfield.
Traceable From Collection to Treatment
The recycling behind your compliance is traceable, because it happens at a site we run.
Part of a Certified B Corporation
Waste Experts, which runs WERCS, is a Certified B Corporation.
Treatment facility permit WEE/ME0006ZT/ATF, operated by Waste Experts
What a WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme Does
A producer compliance scheme takes on your legal obligations under the WEEE Regulations 2013. It registers you with the regulator, reports what you place on the market, and finances the collection and treatment of an equivalent share of waste electricals.
If you place 5 tonnes or more of electrical and electronic equipment on the UK market in a year, you must join an approved scheme. Below 5 tonnes, you can register direct with the regulator as a small producer, or join a scheme so the paperwork is handled for you.
Who It Applies To
Manufacturers, brands, importers and, since 12 August 2025, online marketplaces selling for overseas sellers.
The 5 Tonne Line
5 tonnes or more a year: join a scheme. Under 5 tonnes: register direct by 31 January, or join a scheme.
What You Report
The weight you place on the market, by category and by household (B2C) or non-household (B2B) use.
Categories
15 categories, with vapes added as their own category in 2025.
Regulators
Environment Agency, SEPA, Natural Resources Wales or NIEA, depending on where you are registered.
Switch WEEE Compliance Scheme in Three Steps
Free Desktop Audit
We review what you place on the market and confirm exactly which obligations apply to you.
A Clear Quote
One price for your membership, set out line by line.
We Handle the Handover
We transfer your registration and data from your current scheme for the new compliance year.
Switching has a deadline. Producers can only move scheme between compliance years, and the last day to join or switch for next year is 15 November.
Switch Your SchemeAnswers Before You Speak to Us
WEEE Obligation Checker
Five questions to see which duties apply to you.
Start the checkerCompare Compliance Schemes
What actually differs between approved schemes.
Compare WEEE compliance schemesSwitch Your Scheme
How the handover works and when to start.
How to switch WEEE compliance schemeGuides for Producers
WEEE Compliance Scheme Questions
Find Out Exactly What You Owe
A free desktop audit tells you which obligations apply, what to report and what membership would cost. No commitment.