This matrix outlines the scope and financial responsibility imposed by e-waste legislation in certain key jurisdictions including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, EU, India, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan and the USA. It looks at the products covered, financing and the recycling fee for consumers where applicable.

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E-Waste, who pays?
Scope & Financial Responsibility

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E-waste Matrix
• This matrix outlines the scope and
financial responsibility imposed by
e-waste legislation in certain key
jurisdictions1
• Includes Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, EU, India,
Korea, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan and the USA
• It looks at the products covered, financing and the
recycling fee for consumers where applicable
1 Current as at 28 October 2012

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
Argentina
Currently no law –
several bills
proposed over the
last few years
Bill 1433-D-2012
Large appliances, small appliances, information
technology equipment, consumer electronic
equipment [A/V], lighting equipment, electrical
and electronic tools, toys and sport/leisure
equipment, medical devices, monitoring and
control instruments, automatic dispensers,
batteries and accumulators.
Exclusions: products connected with national
security, nuclear activity, or products that have
been in contact with or contains medical waste.
Producer = any natural or legal person who
manufactures and sells electrical and electronic
equipment under his own brand and / or third
parties, irrespective of the selling technique used
Charge by way of an environmental tax, in an
amount to be determined; producers/importers
operating takeback schemes will be exempt from
the tax.
Argentina -
Province of
Buenos Aires
Law 14.321/2011
Large appliances, small appliances, information
technology equipment, consumer electronic
equipment [A/V], lighting equipment, electrical
and electronic tools, toys and sport/leisure
equipment, medical devices, monitoring and
control instruments, automatic dispensers.
Exclusions: products connected with national or
provincial security, nuclear activity, military
products, arms, munitions, war materiel, or
products that have been in contact with
pathogenic wastes.
Producer = any natural or legal person, regardless
of the selling technique used including distance
selling and electronic means, who manufacturers
and sells electrical and electronic under his own
brand, resells under his own brand equipment
manufactured by third parties, or professionally
imports/exports such equipment.
WEEE management system including takeback,
transport to treatment centres.
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
Brazil
Currently no law,
the following
information
relates to a recent
draft
Bill PL-2045/2011
Computers and peripherals including monitors,
TVs, appliances containing heavy metals or toxic
substances, lights, batteries
Responsibility falls on manufacturers, importers or
marketers to provide takeback system and
environmentally adequate disposal
Brazil – State of
Sao Paulo
Law 13.576/2009
Household appliances and electronic equipment
and components, for domestic, industrial,
commercial or service sector including
components and computer peripherals, monitors,
televisions, batteries, magnetised products.
Full responsibility for disposal falls on companies
that produce, sell or import products or
components.
Canada – Alberta
Alberta Recycling
Management
Authority
Electronics
Recycling Bylaw,
2004
All electrical and electronic equipment or devices
Exclusions: electronics in and affixed to motor
vehicles
Advanced disposal
surcharge payable at
time of purchase.
Amounts are currently
set for TVs, desktop
computers including
peripherals, computer
monitors,
laptops/notebooks and
printers.
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing
Canada - British
Columbia
Recycling Regulation
449/2004
Small electrical or electronic appliances, large electronic or
electrical appliances, electronic or electrical tools, automatic
dispensers, medical devices, electronic or electrical lighting
equipment, electronic or electrical IT or telecommunication
devices, equipment or media, electronic or electrical toys,
leisure and sports equipment, electronic and electrical
monitoring and control instruments, electronic or electrical
audio visual and consumer equipment or media, accessories
for covered products such as cables and chargers, batteries
for use in a covered product.
Exclusions: computers or TVs that are part of or attached to
vehicles, marine vessels or commercial or industrial
equipment, implanted medical devices.
Producer [not tires or packaging] = (i) a person who
manufactures or sells, offers for sale, distributes or uses in a
commercial enterprise the product in [BC] under the
manufacturer’s own brand, (ii) *or+ a person who is not the
manufacturer of the product but is the owner or licensee of a
trademark under which a product is sold, distributed or used
in a commercial enterprise in [BC], whether or not the
trademark is registered, or
(iii) … a person who imports the product into *BC+ for sale,
distribution or use in a commercial enterprise.
Producers pay an environmental handling fee on new
regulated products, used to fund the environmentally sound
end-of-life management.
Canada - Prince
Edward Island
Materials Recycling
Regulations, 2009
Televisions, computers, monitors, printers, scanners, A/V,
telephones, fax machines, cell phones.
Exclusions: factory-installed devices developed for embedded
use in motor vehicles.
Annual fee. Brand owners must operate stewardship program
for recycling and disposal.
Brand owner = (i) manufacturer of the electronic product, (ii)
distributor of the electronic product in or into the province,
(iii) owner or licensee of the intellectual property rights to the
electronic product, or (iv) where the electronic product is
imported into the province, the first person to sell the
electronic product in or into the province.
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
Canada – Quebec
Regulation
respecting the
recovery and
reclamation of
products by
enterprises, 2011
Computers, monitors, printers, scanners, fax
machines, photocopiers, cellular and satellite
telephones, wireless and conventional telephones,
pagers and answering machines, keyboards,
mouses, cables, connectors, chargers and remote
controls for covered products, video game consoles
and peripherals, audio visual equipment such as
projectors and amplifiers, small personal
electronics such as portable digital players, digital
photo frames and digital cameras, small electronic
IT products such as routers, earphones, USB keys,
batteries, mercury lamps.
Enterprises marketing new covered products under
a brand, name or distinguishing guise must recover
or reclaim products of the same type deposited at
drop-off centres or collected.
Canada -
Saskatchewan
Waste Electronic
Equipment
Regulations, 2005
Desktop computers, notebook computers,
computer monitors, mouses, keyboards, printers,
televisions, audio visual equipment, vehicle audio
and video systems, non-cellular telephones and
answering systems.
First sellers are responsible for collection and
recycling; EHF charged per product.
First seller = (i) is a manufacturer, distributor,
owner or licensee of intellectual property rights in
electronic equipment that is sold, offered for sale
or otherwise distributed into or in Saskatchewan;
(ii) is a vendor of electronic equipment outside of
Saskatchewan and who, as an ordinary part of his
or her business, solicits and sells electronic
equipment to consumers in Saskatchewan;
(iii) imports electronic equipment into
Saskatchewan for resale in Saskatchewan;
(iv) imports parts for electronic equipment into
Saskatchewan for assembly and resale in
Saskatchewan; or
(v) purchases electronic equipment outside of
Saskatchewan for use in Saskatchewan;
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
China
Regulations on
Waste Electrical
and Electronic
Equipment, Order
No. 551, 2008
Televisions, refrigeration equipment, washing
machines, air conditioners and microcomputers
Contribution to State Fund
European Union
Directive
2012/19/EU on
WEEE (recast)
From 15 August 2018, all EEE
Exclusions: equipment necessary for protection of
national security, equipment which is part of
another type of equipment that is excluded from
scope which can only fulfil its function if it is part of
that equipment, filament bulbs, equipment
designed to be sent into space, large-scale
stationary industrial tools, large-scale fixed
installations, transport for persons or goods, non-
road mobile machinery for professional use,
equipment designed solely for R&D and made
available B2B, infective medical devices and in vitro
medical devices, and active implantable medical
devices.
Producers responsible for financing collection,
treatment, recovery and environmentally sound
disposal of WEEE from their own products.
Producer = natural or legal person, irrespective of
the selling technique including distance
communication who is:
(i) established in a member state and manufactures
or has designed or manufactured EEE under his
own name or trademark
(ii) established in a member state and resells,
under his own name or trademark, equipment
produced by other suppliers
(iii) established in a member state and places EEE
on the market from a third country or from
another member state, on a professional basis
(iv) sells EEE by distance communication into a
member state, and is established in a member
state or a third country.
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
India
E-waste
(Management and
Handling) Rules,
2011
Information technology and telecommunication
equipment (computers, printers, telephones etc.)
and consumer electrical and electronics (TVs,
refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners)
Exclusions: batteries, centralised air conditioning
plants
Producers must finance and organise a system to
meet the costs involved in environmentally sound
management of e-waste from its own products
and historical waste as of the entry into force.
Producer = any person, irrespective of the selling
technique used, who (i) manufactures and offers
to sell EEE under his own brand, offers to sell
under his own brand assembled EEE produced by
other manufacturers or suppliers, or offers to sell
imported EEE.
Korea
Resource
Recycling of
Electrical and
Electronic
Equipment and
Vehicles, Act No.
8405, 2007
Televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air
conditioners, personal computers, personal audio
equipment, mobile phones including chargers and
batteries, printers, copiers, fax machines.
Manufacturers/importers must meet annual
recycling amounts and takeback like-for-like
products.
Japan
Specific
Household
Appliances
Recycling Law,
1998
Air conditioning equipment, clothes washers and
dryers, refrigerators and freezers, televisions (CRT,
LCD and plasma).
Manufacturers or importers are responsible for the
recycling, takeback and transportation of ewaste.
Manufacturers may
charge retailers for
recycling of appliances
they have collected.
Retailers may charge
collection and recycling
fees to consumers.
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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Covered products2 Producer financing Recycling fee for
consumers
Philippines
Currently no law,
the following
relates to the
draft Senate Bill
Bill 246/2010
Computers, peripherals, fax machines, DVD
players, VCRs and video display devices (TV or
computer monitors including laptop computers
over 9 inches)
Exclusions: video display devices that are: part of a
motor vehicle, part of a larger piece of equipment,
designed and intended for use in industrial,
commercial etc. setting, part of monitoring and
control equipment, contained within an appliance;
telephones.
Payment of registration fee. Manufacturers must
recycle or arrange for collection and recycling of
covered electronic devices, quantity based on
amount of display devices sold to households
during previous program year
Taiwan
Announcement on
Responsibility of
Manufacturers
and Importers
regarding
Recycling,
Clearance and
Disposal of
Articles and
Containers, 2003
Televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, air
conditioners and heaters, electric fans, computers.
Manufacturers or importers are responsible for
recycling, clearance and disposal fees.
USA
No federal
legislation, 25
states have
enacted
legislation
Scope of most states’ laws is limited to computer
equipment, monitors and televisions.
Most states except California, usually includes an
annual registration fee payable by the
producer/manufacturer.
California: consumers
pay electronic waste
recycling fee on
purchase of covered
products
2 This table uses generic descriptions of covered products
without considering definitions in the legislation

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