What to recycle

Any electrical or electronic products, home appliances, batteries other than those for cars, lighting equipment. All these represent WEEE and must be recycled.

Types of WEEE for which the RoRec Association is licensed:

• Large household appliances
• Small household appliances
• IT and telecommunications equipment
• Consumer equipment
• Luminaires for fluorescent lamps (with the exception of luminaires in households)
• Electrical and electronic tools (with the exception of large-scale stationary industrial tools)
• Toys, leisure and sports equipment
• Medical devices (with the exception of all implanted and infected products)
• Monitoring and control instruments
• Automatic dispensers

Useful materials such as metals, glass, plastic, which can be re-used, can be recovered in this way.

We must be aware of the fact that certain parts of the majority of these products may contain hazardous materials such as plumb, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. These toxic substances represent no danger for those who use the equipment according to the purpose for which it was designed, but they will consistently pollute the environment if they are thrown away together with other waste.

Any waste electrical equipment recovered from our homes and offices means less hazardous substances thrown away at random, more available space and less raw material used. But it particularly means lower energy bills, because the new generation of electrical and electronic equipment comply with the latest energy efficiency standards, assumed by the all the world producers.