20 days until digital waste tracking is mandatoryThe guide

Evidence note

WEEE evidence note

The short answer

The statutory record of electrical waste treated and recycled, issued only by an AATF or an Approved Exporter, and used to discharge a producer's legal recycling obligation.

In practice

Manufacturers and importers of electrical goods have to fund the recycling of a matching tonnage. They meet that by buying evidence notes, normally through a compliance scheme. That is why the notes have a market value and why only approved sites may issue them.

A certificate of destruction does not do this job, whatever it says on it.

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