Medical Device WEEE Compliance in the UK

Medical devices have their own category under the UK WEEE Regulations, and their own practical complications at end of life. If your business manufactures, imports or rebrands electrical medical equipment for the UK market, you have producer obligations. WERCS is an approved compliance scheme, approval number WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH, with our own approved treatment facility and experience handling equipment that requires evidence of decontamination before treatment.

Approved scheme WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH

Part of a Certified B Corporation

Our own treatment facility

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Certified B Corporation

Independently verified environmental and social performance

AATF WEE/ME0006ZT/ATF

Our own approved authorised treatment facility

WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH

Environment Agency approved compliance scheme

25 years, 150+ members

Supporting UK producers since the regulations began

medical device weee compliance: what applies to you

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Report in the right category

Medical devices have their own dedicated WEEE category. Reporting them alongside general equipment misstates your obligation and is visible in regulator data.

Nearly always non-household

Most medical equipment is supplied to clinical settings, making it non-household. That places the financing duty for collection and treatment directly on you.

Evidence decontamination

Equipment that has been in clinical use cannot be treated until decontamination is evidenced. This sits alongside your WEEE duty, not instead of it.

Handle embedded data

Diagnostic and monitoring equipment stores patient data. Secure destruction is a separate obligation under data protection law.

Do medical device suppliers need to register for WEEE?

Key dates to watch

Compliance that closes the loop

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You report

We check your categories and tonnages before submission, so your data is right first time.

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We collect

Collections on our own monitored fleet, with Duty of Care paperwork handled throughout.

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We treat

Treated at our own AATF in Kirkheaton rather than passed to a third party for evidence.

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You can prove it

A documented route and carbon savings reported back, ready for an auditor or a customer.

Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling

Meeting your obligation is a legal minimum. Being able to evidence where your equipment went, and what it saved, is what customers, investors and ESG reporting increasingly ask for.

1,600+

Tonnes of CO2 saved each year through our recycling

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WEEE categories treated at our own facility

100%

Traceable route from collection to treatment

B Corp

Verified social and environmental performance

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Straightforward compliance, without the complexity.

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WERCS is an approved WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme, approval number WEE/KP3638PZ/SCH, and part of the Waste Experts group, a Certified B Corporation operating AATF permit WEE/ME0006ZT/ATF.