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Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy 1 part, in or full, in 2020 published be November to 26 Not Thursday COPY: on House of Commons a.m. Environmental Audit Committee ADVANCE00.01 Electronic Waste and before the Circular Economy form First Report of Session 2019–21 EMBARGOEDany in Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 17 November 2020 by authority of the House of Commons Published on 26 November 2020 HC 220 Environmental Audit Committee The Environmental Audit Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to consider to what extent the policies and programmes of government departments and non-departmental public bodies contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development; to audit their performance against such targets as may be set for them by Her Majesty’s Ministers; and to report thereon to the House. Current membership Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP (Conservative, Ludlow) (Chair) part, Duncan Baker MP (Conservative, North Norfolk) in Sir Christopher Chope MP (Conservative, Christchurch) or Feryal Clark MP (Labour, Enfield North) Barry Gardiner MP (Labour, Brent North) full, Rt Hon Robert Goodwill MP (Conservative, Scarborough and Whitby) in 2020 Ian Levy MP (Conservative, Blyth Valley) Marco Longhi MP (Conservative, Dudley North) Caroline Lucas MP (Green Party, Brighton, Pavilion) published Cherilyn Mackrory MP (Conservative, Truro and Falmouthbe ) November Jerome Mayhew MP (Conservative, Broadland) to 26 John McNally MP (Scottish National Party, Falkirk) Dr Matthew Offord MP (Conservative, HendonNot) Alex Sobel MP (Labour (Co-op), Leeds North West) Claudia Webbe MP (Independent, Leicester ThursdayEast) COPY: Nadia Whittome MP (Labour, Nottinghamon East ) The following Member is a formera.m. member of the Committee: Mr Shailesh Vara MP (Conservative, North West Cambridgeshire) 00.01 Powers ADVANCE The constitution and powers are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152A. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.ukbefore. Publicationsform EMBARGOED© Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2020. This publication may be reproducedany under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is published at inwww.parliament.uk /copyright. Committee reports are published on the Committee’s website at www.parliament.uk/eacom and in print by Order of the House. Evidence relating to this report is published on the inquiry publications page of the Committee’s website. part, in or full, in 2020 published November Committee staff be Andrew Bax (Committee Specialist), Medha Bhasin (Second Clerk), James Camp to (Committee Operations Officer), Nick Davies (Committee Specialist), Laura 26 Grant (Committee Specialist), Lloyd Owen (Clerk), Jonathan Wright (Committee Operations Manager). Not Other staff of the committee during the inquiry Lydia Franklinos (Committee Specialist), Katie Gibbs (Committee Operations Thursday Officer), Sascha Sajjad (Committee Operations Officer). COPY: Contacts on All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 8890; the Committee’s email address is a.m. [email protected]. You can follow the Committee on Twitter using @CommonsEAC ADVANCE00.01 before form EMBARGOEDany in . part, in or full, in 2020 published be November to 26 Not Thursday COPY: on a.m. ADVANCE00.01 before form EMBARGOEDany in Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy 1 Contents Summary 3 Our Report 5 Introduction: Electronics and E-waste, what are the problems? 7 Electronics and E-waste – what problems are being caused? 9 Carbon emissions in consumption part,9 Resource extraction and use in 10 or Critical Raw Materials 11 A tsunami of E-waste full, 13 Materials in E-waste in 13 2020 Exportation and toxic chemicals 14 1 Collecting E-waste 16 Collection targets published 17 Increasing the collection of E-waste be November 20 Collection methods to 26 20 Improving E-waste collection Not 21 The compliance fee 22 Free riding by online retailers and Thursdaymarketplaces 22 COPY: Consumer awareness on 25 Retailer take-back 25 Mandatory kerbside collectiona.m. 26 Designing a new Extended Producer Responsibility scheme 27 InternationalADVANCE harmonisation00.01 29 2 Preventing E-waste and Using Resources Better 32 before Durability: making electronics last longer again 33 formShortening product lifetimes 34 Planned or programmed obsolescence 34 EMBARGOED any Actions to improve durability 36 in Repairing our electronics 38 Barriers to repair 39 Intentional prevention of repair 39 The cost of repair 43 VAT reduction on repair services 43 Requirements related to strengthening the right to repair 44 Promoting the re-use of electronics 45 3 Recycling 47 Recycling targets 50 Investment 51 The focus of government investment 52 Raw material prices 55 Exporting E-waste part,56 in Conclusions and recommendations 59 or Appendix 1: UK E-waste in numbers 66 full, Appendix 2: UK Electrical and Electronic Equipment categories in 67 2020 Appendix 3: Critical Raw Materials 68 Appendix 4: Why electronic products become waste 69 published Formal minutes be November 70 to 26 Witnesses 71 Not Published written evidence 72 List of Reports from the Committee duringThursday the current Parliament 75 COPY: on a.m. ADVANCE00.01 before form EMBARGOEDany in Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy 3 Summary In the UK, as in the rest of the world, we are buying more and more electrical and electronic equipment. This is driving economic opportunities and improving the quality of our lives but is coming at a heavy cost to people and the environment. Our electronic products are lasting less time than they used to, they are becoming harder to repair and they aren’t being re-used when they could be. In fact, some companies are deliberately making it very hard for us to repair their items. This means we are buyingpart, and using more than we need to be. in In the UK we each create a huge amount of electronic waste—the second highestor in the world. Yet we are not collecting and treating much of this waste properly. A lot of it goes to landfill, incineration or is dumped overseas. Under current lawsfull, producers and retailers of electronics are responsible for this waste, yet they are clearlyin not fulfilling that responsibility. 2020 The UK is one of the largest exporters of electronic waste in the world. Some researchers think we send the equivalent of 40% of the electronic waste we collect overseas. This is illegal. In the countries that receive our electronic waste,published it is often dumped, with toxic chemicals leaching into the environment and harmingbe people.November In this country, toxic chemicals are also causing harm whilst we use tothe electronics26 and when they become waste. Not Most of us don’t know what to do with our electronic waste. Even on the rare occasions that we do recycle it, it is not getting treated properly. Our recycling systems shred and incinerate it, wasting the rare, precious resourcesThursday they contain—resources vital to our COPY: low-carbon future, our healthcare technologieson and our defence systems. These valuable rare resources are already the subject of geopolitical struggles. Some are so rare that they are predicted to run out completelya.m. by the end of the century. To start solving this large and growing problem we are calling on the Government to take action to preventADVANCE this—a00.01 full list of which can be found at the end of this report. In particular, we want to highlight the following recommendations from the report: i) We askbefore the Government to set ambitious long-term targets including for the collection, re-use and recycling of E-waste to be undertaken to a very high standard. We ask that these targets focus on reducing resource consumption; formthe environmental impact of the industry and on capturing and retaining value including critical raw materials. EMBARGOEDany in ii) Our high streets are under severe pressure and current regulations, coming into force from 2021, could unfairly entrench the competitive advantage of online retailers and marketplaces like Amazon. As a matter of urgency, and at the latest by the end of 2021, online retailers and marketplaces must have an equal obligation to collect electronic waste from customers. To prevent take-back only being offered at remote, inconvenient warehouses, we believe that the exemplary innovation shown by some companies should become a minimum—meaning all large online retailers and marketplaces must arrange 4 Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy and pay for like-for-like electronic waste collection from a customer’s home on delivery of new electronics. They must also offer to collect any electronic waste defined as “small” at the same time. iii) Online marketplaces must also be made responsible for ensuring that all electrical and electronic equipment sold on their platforms is fully safe and compliant with the law. Producers should be required to pay exactly the same producer responsibility fees and follow the same rules selling online and they do offline. part, iv) We ask the Government to ban the practice of intentionally shorteningin the lifespan of products through planned obsolescence. or v) The Government should also require all producers to label theirfull, electrical and electronic products with each item’s expected lifetime, includingin how long a device will receive software security updates. The label should2020 also include a repairability score based on the product’s design, the availability and cost of spare parts and access and ease of use of repair manuals. vi) We ask the Government to enshrine a right publishedto repair electronic products in law, enforcing access to repair manuals, beaffordable November spare parts for products and for products to be designed so that repair it not prevented through limited access to physical or software tools. to 26 vii) We call on the Government toNot reduce the VAT charged on the repair of electrical and electronic products, as takes place in other countries, to reduce the financial barriers to repairingThursday items.
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