The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Materials (RoHS) directive requires manufacturers to find replacements for lead, mercury, and cadmium, as well as for chemicals such as flame retardants that show in circuit boards and plastic covers.
A second directive also restricts certain hazardous substances from being used in electrical and electronic equipment. It arrives as mobile phone makers said they would back a programme for recycling handsets, which often contain hazardous substances.
VIA says that its lead-free manufacturing processes comply with WEEE, and also with the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (ROHS), which is a second EU directive The Europe Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) means that After...
The EU has also introduced legislation - the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive (RoHS), which is due to be enacted into UK legislation next year - to ban the use of certain hazardous substances.
Hot on the heels of the WEEE Directive will be a further tightening of the RoHs (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Directive. And if things improve, if landfill levels of toxins, hazardous substances, heavy metals and plastics decrease, and...
The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which limits the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, went into force in the UK on the 1 July and should go some way towards forcing the IT...
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