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WEEE and the FRN 
The FRN will represent the views and position of 280
UK Furniture and Appliance Re-use Organisations to all stakeholders
involved in the implementation of the UK’s Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment legislation and ensure these are incorporated
in all services provided in future to meet the legislative requirements.
The FRN will ensure that the concerns and wishes of the FRN membership
are recognised by all sectors involved, and that all opportunity
is given to the re-use groups to become involved in the future WEEE
services in the UK.The FRN will ensure that all legislative requirements to support the re-use of whole equipment are included in all further policy and contracts and services, and that practical and procedural mechanisms to support re-use activity are developed alongside all other WEEE requirements. 
The FRN will co-ordinate the development of UK community sector operated regional facilities, to provide a service to Local Authorities, retailers and other WEEE stakeholders, to aid the collection and separation of WEEE from the domestic waste stream. The facilities will have the capacity to ensure good quality reusable electrical and electronic equipment is repaired and fully tested for distribution to people in need, throughout the regions of the UK. The facilities will also have the capacity to take on other services to meet with the WEEE requirements and targets, such as collection, temporary storage, low-level treatment, dismantling and transportation for further processing. 
The FRN will enable its membership to increase their capacity to
reuse appliances from the domestic waste stream. The WEEE legislation
is requiring changes in our member’s practices, through meeting
codes of practice and needing to deliver other services in order
to secure their position within the requirements and flow of WEEE
in future. Therefore, the intention is to prepare and implement
new community sector operations that will increase turnover and
improve the quality of appliances being passed on to people in need
and hardship, while offering other services to fulfil the WEEE requirements.
The FRN sees the role of its members being operated at a local authority and regional level. Members are developing operations and proposals to work with Local Authorities and commerce to collect and separate end of life electrical and electronic equipment. The items collected from civic amenity sites, bulky waste collection services and from retail take-back systems will be taken and bulked up at large regional storage warehouses, for assessment and separation.
Current trials are showing that Local authority sites are unable to store the arisings of WEEE recovered from their current facilities and would therefore welcome co-operation with other Authorities to set up regional bulk storage facilities for all WEEE separately collected to be stored awaiting transportation to the final processing site. The FRN and many authorities see partnership with the community sector to operate the regional storage facilities, as an efficient way to deal with WEEE arisings. 
The sentiment by all WEEE stakeholders to “encourage re-use”
has moved on, thanks to our success in ensuring that “mechanisms
or systems are in place for re-use” within national policy.
To summarise, the FRN will aid the development and co-ordination of these regional “Authorised Re-use Centres” (ARCs) that will enable re-use of WEEE and operate any additional collection or treatment services that the final UK WEEE management options or solutions require. The FRN will now set up nationwide systems to manage, administrate and authorise reusers and WEEE collectors, ready in time for WEEE implementation in early 2006
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