Waste electricals, tracked properly
WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment: anything that ran on a plug or a battery, once somebody throws it out. It carries its own rules, its own paperwork and its own approved sites, and getting it wrong is expensive.
What makes it different
Separate collection, separate treatment, and a manufacturer or importer somewhere is legally obliged to fund the recycling. That obligation is settled with evidence notes, which only approved facilities issue.
What LoadSnap does with it
Classifies the load, raises the transfer note, files the DEFRA submission, tracks it to the treatment site by weight and EWC code, and issues a certificate of destruction where data-bearing kit was destroyed.
A load of electricals, end to end
- 1Collected. Photograph the load and the AI classifier reads the EWC code, hazard status and description. The transfer note is raised on the phone before the tailgate shuts.
- 2Carried. The movement carries the vehicle, the driver, where it was picked up and who signed for it, stamped at the moment it happened.
- 3Received. Weighed in at the treatment site, netted against the weighbridge ticket, and filed to DEFRA once rather than twice where both ends are on LoadSnap.
- 4Destroyed, where it applies. Drives, tapes and laptops get a certificate naming the items, the weight, the method and the date, with a code the customer can check for themselves.
- 5Evidenced. The AATF issues the WEEE evidence note. That part is theirs, not ours.
A certificate of destruction is not a WEEE evidence note
A certificate of destruction is a commercial assurance about a specific job, and whoever did the destroying can issue one. A WEEE evidence note is statutory, and only an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility or an Approved Exporter can issue one. LoadSnap produces the first. It does not produce the second, and no software can.
New to the vocabulary? The waste glossary explains WEEE, AATF, evidence notes and the rest in plain English.