Role of local authorities

Local authority register with DPA

All local authorities have a system user access to DPA’s statutory local authority register. This is because the local authorities are responsible for establishing the sites where citizens can drop their recyclable waste, and where the operators of the compliance schemes must provide collection units (metal cages, containers, and various boxes and barrels) corresponding to the seven electronics categories + portable batteries.

Waste management companies

Furthermore, a number of public utilities and intermunicipal waste management companies have access to the register, where the local authority has chosen to transfer “operation-ownership” of one or more of the municipal collection sites to a waste management company.

Information to be maintained by the local authority:

• Contact information of staff members responsible for administration and operation
• Address of collection sites where waste electronics are to be picked up
• Number and type of collection equipment
• Pickup hours and special issues, such as keys, access code, etc.

Collected volumes per collection site

Every year producers must provide information to DPA about how many kilograms/tonnes of waste electronics and portable batteries they have collected in the calendar year per collection site. On the request of the local authority, and free of charge, they must also inform about collected volumes per collection site and month. Local authorities can request such information once a month.

Annual quantities per fraction and per collection site are accessible to the local authority after a login. DPA publishes summed up data per local authority, fraction, and per capita in the annual statistics.

No matter which collection service the local authority selects, citizens must discard waste electronics and portable batteries at a collection point where they are picked up by the operators of the producers. If the local authority has chosen kerbside collection, it must make sure that end-of-life products are transported to a collection site registered at DPA.

The producers have ownership of end-of-life electronics and batteries; After environmental treatment and recycling producers may gain an income through the sale of these secondary raw materials.