2415 Pleasant View Rd.
Middleton, WI 53562
The Recycling of Mercury
According to the directive 2002/95/CE, relating to the limitation of the use of certain dangerous substances in
electrical equipment and electronic, starting from July 1st, 2006, the Member States of the European Union must
take care that the new electrical equipment and electronic put on the market does not contain lead, nor of
mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybromobiphenyls (PBB) or polybromodiphenylethers (PBDE).
It is stipulated, in the Field of application of this Directive, which it applies to electrical equipment and electronic
concerned with categories 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and 10 enumerated with appendix IA of the Directive 2002/96/CE (DEEE)
like to the electric bulbs and the domestic luminaries.
Meridian Laboratory products are included in category 9 (instruments of monitoring and control of appendix IA of
the Directive 2002/96/CE) and are thus excluded from the requirements of the Directive 2002/95/CE.
On the other hand, Meridian Laboratory must be in accordance with the Directive 2002/96/CE relating to the
DEEE (scrap electrical equipment and electronic).
As for any producer of electricals appliance or electronic put on the market after August 13th, 2005, the Meridian
Laboratory products must be clearly identifiable thanks to the label which corresponds to each apparatus. In the
same way, the date of marketing must appear on each product.
Indeed, according to appendix IA of the European directive 2002/96/CE, Meridian Laboratory, as a manufacturer
of instruments of monitoring and control, must take account of the requirements as regards repair, possible
improvement, re-use, disassembling and recycling of the products containing of mercury.
Meridian Laboratory is committed ensuring information for the users. Meridian Laboratory thus has the obligation
to mark in a suitable way the products which would be likely to be thrown among ordinary waste. This obligation to
make appear the symbol of recycling extends to packing, the note of use and the certificate of guarantee of the
equipment concerned.
Meridian Laboratory must ensure the collection of waste and the recycling of mercury by electing specialized
companies.
Meridian Laboratory attests that the financing of the costs of the collection, the treatment, the valorization and the
nonpolluting elimination of the DEEE are with its load.
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