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WEEE Man sculpture with River Thames in foreground2. Pan Up WEEE MAN3. WEEE Man face4. Child with mother pointing at sculpture5. Various elements of sculpture6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLondon and Lewes, Sussex, UK - 11 May 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. WEEE Man sculpture with River Thames in foreground\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan Up WEEE MAN\u003cbr/\u003e3. WEEE Man face\u003cbr/\u003e4. Child with mother pointing at sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various elements of sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Holdway,RSA WEEE Man, Project Director \"The RSA WEEE Man is 24 foot...\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various Land Fill site (Lewes, Sussex)\u003cbr/\u003e8. Fridge compressor being hit with hammer\u003cbr/\u003e9. Fridge compressor being dislodged\u003cbr/\u003e10. Fridge compressor being drained of CFCs\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Hadley Director, Reco-Vie Recycling Limited \" The first stage.....\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan of computers and printers waiting to be recycled\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of crane filling shredder with computer items\u003cbr/\u003e14. Shredded computer waste\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various skip filling with shredded computer waste\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE : (English) Mark Hadley Director, Reco-Vie Recycling Limited: \"For most categories...\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Forklift in warehouse with fridges\u003cbr/\u003e18. Shredded fridge on conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e19. Shredded fridge lands in skip\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE : (English) Mark Hadley Director, Reco-Vie Recycling Limited: \"think it is going to be a big...\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various WEEE Man sculpture \u003cbr/\u003eWaste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, otherwise known as WEEE, is the fastest growing waste type in the European Union.\u003cbr/\u003eTo highlight the growing problem, a striking seven metre humanoid-like sculpture named WEEE Man has been erected, overlooking the Thames river in London.  \u003cbr/\u003eIt is hoped that passer-bys struck by the imposing structure, which is composed from items of electronic household waste, will begin to question their own usage and disposal of everyday goods. \u003cbr/\u003eThe project also aims to highlight new European laws governing electrical and electronic waste that will soon come into force in the UK.\u003cbr/\u003eThe hulking three-ton statue may look like it has been designed for the set of a futuristic movie, but despite his android like appearance, WEEE man is built entirely from typical electrical and electronic waste. \u003cbr/\u003eHis purpose is to illustrate what the average UK citizen throws away in electrical or electronic waste in their lifetime.\u003cbr/\u003eWEEE man's anatomy includes five fridges, 12 kettles, 35 mobile phones as well as numerous computers, washing machines and vacuum cleaners.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sculpture was commissioned by the Royal Society of Arts and designed by Paul Bonomini. \u003cbr/\u003eIts purpose is to encourage the British public, retailers and manufacturers to think carefully about waste reduction and the consequences of the throw-away attitude common in consumer societies.  \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE : (English) \u003cbr/\u003e'' The RSA WEEE Man is 24 foot high and 3.3 tons and this represents the amount of electronic waste that you will dispose of in your lifetime, most of which currently goes to landfill. So we want to raise your awareness and change your attitude to the disposing of electronic waste and increase the re-use and recycling.'' \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Robert Holdway, RSA WEEE Man, Project Director\u003cbr/\u003eBy early 2006, British consumers and retailers will be forced to think about the correct disposal of electronic waste, as the implementation of an EU Directive comes into force. \u003cbr/\u003eIn January 2003 the EU published the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive. \u003cbr/\u003eThe aim of the new legislation is to reduce the amount of electrical waste going to landfill, and to encourage recycling and re-use.\u003cbr/\u003eAt present about 90% of Europe's WEEE waste goes into land fill.\u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND : hammer banging washing machine \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the UK lags behind many of its European counterparts, it does already have around 15 specialist recycling plants. \u003cbr/\u003eAt this plant in Sussex old and abandoned fridges and freezers are completely taken apart and shredded. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE : (English) \u003cbr/\u003e'' The first stage, we are just taking the compressors off they have to be drained of oils and CFCs which are a mixture, recover the oils for recycling, take the gases out for incineration and then the rest of the fridge can go for shredding. We are going to get about 95% of the materials back from each fridge.''\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mark Hadley Director, Reco-Vie Recycling Limited\u003cbr/\u003eAffluent Britain's love of technology contributes significantly to Europe's electronic waste problem. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is estimated that by 2015,  Britons' will own more than 70 million set-top boxes, 63 million TVs and 14 million VCR's and DVDs, with the latest models constantly replacing the older versions which are often simply cast aside. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is not clear if  the UK will be ready for the new laws that will make retailers responsible for the recycling of any old electronic goods purchased from their outlets.\u003cbr/\u003eMark Hadley, Director of the Reco-Vie Recycling, believes that Britain's recycling industry will need a shake-up if it is to compete for large pan-European contracts which he believes is the only way of keeping the UK industry viable.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE : (English)  \u003cbr/\u003e''For most categories of this type of waste there is very little intrinsic value. The actual plastics and steel in a small printer are probably only worth a few pence. So the problem then is to find the funds to properly recycle the various waste streams within it, to recover the plastics, the steels, the aluminiums and obviously the rare metals that are inside them.''\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mark Hadley, Director, Reco-Vie Recycling Limited\u003cbr/\u003eWhen the European WEEE Directive comes into force, consumers, retailers, designers and manufacturers of these products will all be affected by the new laws and will find themselves with new financial burdens.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE : (English) \u003cbr/\u003e''I think it is going to be a big problem for small businesses. Their problem is that they will be under an obligation not to throw this equipment away and indeed they may have to recover it from their customers. 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