Of the 1,046 civic amenity sites which have applied for designated collection facilities approval 867 will collect all five categories of WEEE.
There are 1,046 local authority civic amenity sites that have registered as designated collection facilities (DCFs). This represents 100 per cent. of local authority sites in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and 97 per cent. of sites in England. In addition there are a further 400 private DCFs including local authority waste transfer stations.
There are 37 approved producer compliance schemes registered with the environment authorities, details of which are available on both the DTI website:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/sustainability/weee/page30269.html
and the Environment Agency website:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/weee