PV CYCLE offers collective and tailor-made waste management and legal compliance services for companies and waste holders in the European Union.
While our services have a special focus on solar energy equipment and photovoltaic production scrap, our service portfolio includes a broad range of waste products:
Producer Responsibility require from Producers and Importers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE, also PV) and batteries to organize the collection, the waste treatment and the financing of these activities.
PV CYCLE enables these companies to comply with their legal obligations – in an agile and cost-effective way. Our members and their customers benefit from our collective, non-for-profit approach and our solid take-back network. Our compliance services cover the following requirements:
Companies have to register their company and declare the products they put on the market. Declaration periods vary by Member State.
Companies need to ensure a comprehensive take-back and waste treatment infrastructure for their products.
Companies have to provide a financial solution to cover the administrative and operational aspects of collecting and treating their waste products. National financing obligations vary from adhoc payments to financial guarantees. Some countries also hold back subsidies to assure waste management.
Companies have to inform their customers on correct waste disposal and provide treatment facilities with their products’ composition and use of hazardous materials. Products have to carry company information such as brand, logo, ID Nr. or other. EEE products – also PV panels – need to be marked with the crossed-out wheelie bin.
An Authorized Representative is a mandatory legal compliance obligation for companies directly selling to households through online sales shops. These companies must mandate a national Authorized Representative.
Through our partner company WEEE-AR we offer Authorized Representative services under national WEEE legislation.
PV CYCLE is the world’s first collective take-back and recycling scheme for PV panels. PV CYCLE is the only accredited legal compliance scheme for WEEE compliance of PV Panels in Belgium today.The same applies for France, where PV CYCLE aisbl is one the founders of the sole Producer Responsibility Organization for PV Panels.
Companies interested in waste management as part of their environmental commitment or after- sales service can benefit from our tailor-made solutions for a variety of waste products. These service packages are applicable to WEEE, battery, packaging and industrial waste. If you have other waste products, please send us an email for more information.
PV CYCLE offers a company-individual collection and treatment solution for production and/or post-production waste. This solution is limited to the countries and waste products as defined between the company and PV CYCLE. A global scope is possible.
Waste holders with a dismantling need can benefit from a comprehensive decommissioning service for PV installations, covering dismantling by professionals and waste packaging. Our dismantling service is limited to PV projects.
The PV CYCLE portfolio includes a wide range of consultancy solutions such as in-house trainings, support with tenders/scorecards/indexes and the development of corporate waste management programs. We also offer campaigning and representation solutions designed to promote the environmental commitment of our members.
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