WEEE
English
Etymology
From the title of the European law: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2003).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wiː/
Audio (UK) (file) - Homophones: we, wee, Wii, whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
- Rhymes: -iː
Noun
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The symbol for WEEE within the European Union.
WEEE (uncountable)
- (Britain, Ireland) Electronic waste.
- 2007, Department of Health: Estates and Facilities Division, The Treatment, Recovery, Recycling and Safe Disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, The Stationery Office →ISBN, page 16:
- You may wish to ensure that your WEEE is stored in a safe, secure area.
- 2011, OECD, OECD Environmental Performance Reviews OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Norway 2011, OECD Publishing →ISBN, page 180:
- Further improvements to the system should include better enforcement for retail outlets, as some major supermarket chains that sell electrical and electronic products do not accept WEEE.
- 2013, Weidong Li, Jörn Mehnen, Cloud Manufacturing: Distributed Computing Technologies for Global and Sustainable Manufacturing, Springer Science & Business Media →ISBN, page 125:
- To establish a better understanding on recovery/remanufacturing flows is therefore paramount for enterprises to apply sensible recovery/remanufacturing strategies to recover diverse WEEE.
- 2007, Department of Health: Estates and Facilities Division, The Treatment, Recovery, Recycling and Safe Disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, The Stationery Office →ISBN, page 16:
Anagrams
- eeew