Recycling - Going Green with your old Roland products

Recycling

As a consumer you have a number of options where you can dispose of you old Roland and Boss products.

General products: To find out where you can recycle your old Roland and Boss products please click on the following link

www.recycle-more.co.uk

This site provides the UK's most comprehensive bank locator and recycling information for households, businesses and schools.

Electronic & Electrical products: If the products contain electronics or electrical parts and were bought after the 1st July 2007 and you purchase a new equivalent product you may take you old product to the Retailer for them to dispose of; or ask them to collect it from your house and dispose of it. The disposal should be free of charge but you may be charged a collection fee.

Producers (such as Roland (UK) Ltd) will be responsible for the disposed products treatment for either recycling or re-use.

This is part of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment regulations (WEEE)

Please click on the link below to for further details / FAQs about this service

For Businesses such as Artists, Churches, Pro-Audio companies who bought our electrical products directly from us we offer a take back system in line with WEEE directives. If you wish us to recycle the products, you are replacing with new equipment, please let either your Account Manager or the Sales Office know what you would like to have recycled when you place the order. We will then make the necessary arrangements to have the products collected and disposed of by an appropriate recycling company.

Further details / FAQs

What does WEEE stand for and what does it cover?
WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The WEEE Regulations apply to electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) which falls within 10 product categories; virtually all EEE. The list is defined as follows by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry:

  • Large household appliances
  • Small household appliances
  • IT & Telecommunications equipment
  • Consumer equipment
  • Lighting equipment
  • Electrical and electronic tools
  • Toys leisure and sports equipment
  • Medical devices
  • Monitoring and control instruments
  • Automatic dispensers

So as a consumer, who should I contact to dispose of an old synthesiser or a digital recorder?
As consumers, for appliances you buy from 1 July 2007, your distributor (meaning retailer, online distributor, mail order distributor etc) has an obligation to inform you of the means they provide to dispose of WEEE free of charge for treatment or recycling when delivered for the ”in-store take-back” (option 1) or the designated collection point (option 2).

  • Option 1 - “In - store Take-Back”: Retailers may accept an item for treatment (recycling or re-use) when you purchase an equivalent item; or
  • Option 2 – Distributor Compliance Scheme: The Retailer may direct you to a designated collection facility he supports where you can dispose of your item free of charge. This will most likely be a local authority civic amenity site. However, there may be a fee charged by the retailer to collect the waste appliance from your home.

The retailer must provide at least one of these alternatives for you.

What is meant by “equivalent item”?
The product you are taking back to the Retailer for recycling free of charge to you, should fulfil the same function as the one you are buying. Date of manufacture, size or features are not important.

What are the provisions for items purchased from distance sellers?
The distance seller (for products purchased over the Internet, or through mail order) has to provide customers with information on how to discard appliances free of charge. Distance sellers may inform you of the distributor take-back scheme in your area or provide you with free shipping to a WEEE collection point.

Can I continue to dispose of small electrical appliances with the household waste?
You should not. The whole purpose of the legislation is to reduce the environmental impact of products going to landfill.

If you need any further information
You should seek advice from:

UK: The Environment Agency
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
Tel: 08708 506 506

Northern Ireland: Environment and Heritage Service
http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/
Tel: 028 9054 6462

Scotland: The Environment Protection Agency
http://www.sepa.org.uk/contact/index.htm
Tel: 01786 457700