Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Disposal Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) is all end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment and covers virtually everything with a plug or battery. It is required to be collected via the University Estates Waste Office or our licensed WEEE contractor (CCL North Ltd) and is illegal to dispose in any other way e.g. bins, skips. Examples from offices computer equipment kettles fridges Examples from laboratories (decontamination has to be confirmed prior to disposal) ovens incubators lab equipment fridges or freezers etc. How do I dispose To ease the collection and ensure larger more sustainable pick ups, CVS Lab Management organise WEEE uplifts with the University Estates Waste Office and/or our regulated waste collection company CCL North on behalf of CVS. Usually these occur 2 or 3 times a year dependent on demand, emails will be sent out asking if you have any items for the uplift by CVS Lab Management. Although it is possible to organise individual collection of these items yourself https://www.ed.ac.uk/estates/waste-recycling/a-z-waste/electronic-equipment. In the first instance if you do have a lot of equipment for disposal we ask you to contact us at cvs.lab.management@ed.ac.uk Software Destruction Information Our WEEE contractor CCL North Ltd also undertake software based data destruction for all types of data including electronic media, hard drives, SSD devices, data tapes, CDs and memory sticks. They offer licensed software erasure, certified hard drive degaussing and physical destruction (for more information see the CCL North Ltd website: www.cclnorth.com/data-destruction). Further information on this can be found here https://www.ed.ac.uk/estates/waste-recycling This article was published on 2025-09-12
