PV CYCLE's Miss Éco-participation explains waste responsibility for PV owners and companies

09/13/2016 | Print view

With an educational video PV CYCLE educates about PV waste responsibilty in France. - © PV CYCLE — © PV CYCLE

With an educational video PV CYCLE educates about PV waste responsibilty in France.

For the second anniversary of PV waste legislation in France, PV CYCLE presents Miss Éco-participation. The educational video is a comic version of the mandatory visible fee on newly sold PV modules in France.

In the three-minute video PV CYCLE and its charismatic hero explain the value of sustainable waste management for the market and society. Two years ago the French government transposed Directive 2012/19/EU into national law, making collection, treatment and all related administration a legal requirement for those bringing PV modules onto the French market.

Producer responsibility

With decree 2014-928 integrating PV modules in the so-called Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment legislation, manufacturers, importers, distributors as well as module owners became subject to French waste management obligations, including a mandatory fee. Known as eco participation, the visible fee finances all aspects of a sustainable, nation-wide producer responsibility system in the PV industry without that waste holders like installers have to pay extra at the time their modules reach the end of the lifetime.

85 percent of the modules properly declared

While it demonstrates environmental responsibility and gives financial security to the industry and society, the eco participation also serves as the ultimate proof of WEEE compliance. About 85 percent of the PV modules sold in the French market were properly declared last year, resulting in Europe’s best PV compliance rate so far, according to PV Cycle.

Better educate PV professionals and the public

With their new video, PV CYCLE France wants to better educate PV professionals and the public on PV end-of-life management. PV CYCLE France is the Government-approved WEEE compliance scheme for PV modules in France. Powered by EDF ENR Solaire, EDR ENR PWT, Urbasolar, PV CYCLE Association, Sillia Energie, Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables (SER) and Voltec Solar, PV CYCLE France manages all administrative and operational aspects of WEEE compliance for manufacturers, importers and distributors of PV modules. (HCN)

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