The costs of collection, treatment, recovery, recycling and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE have to be borne by the producer. The amount of WEEE the producer is responsible for is determined by the Environment Agency based on the market share of the producer for that Category of EEE.

The producer compliance schemes are responsible for clearing their allocation of household WEEE from the Designated Collection Facilities and from in-store takeback at the retailers.
Once it is clear where these collection centres are located it will be possible to accurately determine what the costs of collecting the WEEE, until then we can only provide estimates.
A further complication is that if a compliance scheme over- or under-collects WEEE during the compliance period, a reconciliation process has to be undertaken through the WEEE Exchange which has yet to be set up by the government.
This will take place after the end of the compliance period once all the costs and quantities are known.
The price of trading WEEE evidence through the Exchange will be set by the government – this will obviously have an effect on the final charges to the producer. Below is our best estimates of what the final cost to the producer will be of handling household WEEE:

Estimated B2C WEEE Costs