Concerns have been raised by multiple businesses in the waste sector over the system put in place to ensure that all WEEE waste is correctly collected from Civic Amenity sites and HWRCs.
The system that is under scrutiny is the Producer Compliance Scheme Balancing System (PBS). Some in the WEEE sector believe that it may be being taken advantage of by schemes short of evidence, because it could come out as a cheaper way to obtain the evidence needed to account for recycling of WEEE.
Councils can use the PBS system to secure a contractor to collect WEEE from civic amenity sites/HWRCs. The PBS is explained by the Environment Agency as a “collaborative solution” to meet the statutory demands from local authorities for the clearance of WEEE from their CA sites/HWRCs, where it has not been possible to enter a contract with a specific Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS).