Sweden | The European Recycling Platform (ERP), a pan-European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance scheme, selected Swedish WEEE recycler Stena Metall Group to act as their new General Contractor for Austria, Germany and Poland. Starting in 2008, Stena will be responsible for the operations in these countries, thereby allowing ERP to deliver
additional services to its members, which include global electronics manufacturers like Braun, Electrolux, HP and Sony.
After a selection process, ERP chose Gothenburg headquartered Stena Metall Group, which has worked as a managing contractor on behalf of collective schemes in the Nordic countries, where its WEEE activities date back 15 years. Managing Director Business Area WEEE, Phär Oscár comments, ‘We are very proud to be selected as ERP’s strategic partner and predict that this partnership will entail
considerable advantages for both parties.’
ERP is already operational in eight countries, in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. Operations are due to start next year in Italy, where ERP appointed multinational logistics group Geodis as a contractor, in addition to France,
Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the UK where Geodis currently operates since 2004.
Currently, ERP has over 1 000 members -including 27 European members- and has treated and recycled over 200 000 tonnes of electronic and electrical waste, the company says.
