What is a Designated Collection Facility (DCF)?
It is expected that producers will only have responsibility for the cost of collecting and treating WEEE from DCFs. The majority of DCFs will be Civic Amenity sites operated by councils, but other DCFs could be set up including retail distribution centres that WEEE is brought back to, transfer stations and community re-use facilities. DCFs will have to be approved by the DTI. This is likely to require adherence to a yet-to-be defined Code of Practice and agreement by a DCF to work with Compliance Schemes.
