Category 1: Large Household Appliances
Large household electrical appliances are found in both commercial and domestic waste settings. Large household appliances include washing machines, dishwashers, electric cookers, microwaves, electric heaters, air conditioning appliances, fridges and freezers.
Category 2: Small Household Appliances
Small household electrical appliances include many everyday household items, including irons, toasters, coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, clocks, watches and shaving and body care appliances.
Category 3: IT and Telecommunications Equipment
The vast majority of WEEE products that are in category three are usually found in business settings and offices. Some examples of category 3 WEEE include PCs, Apple Macs, laptops, printers, telephones and answering machines.
Category 4: Consumer Equipment
Category 4 WEEE includes common consumer equipment and products including consumer radios, televisions, video cameras, amplifiers and musical instruments.
Category 5: Lighting Equipment
Category 5 lighting equipment includes a variety of different types of lights. Category 5 includes mostly lighting equipment found in industrial and commercial buildings including fluorescent light tubes, high-intensity discharge lamps, low-pressure sodium lamps and other types of lighting except for the conventional filament bulb.
Category 6: Electrical and Electronic Tools
Electrical tools in category 6 include a broad range of tools used by tradespeople except for large scale industrial tools. Examples of Category 6 WEEE include drills, saws, sewing machines, tools for welding, equipment for milling, sanding sawing and grinding and tools for gardening.
Category 7: Toys, Leisure and Sports Equipment
Toys, leisure and sports equipment includes video games, sports equipment with electric components, coin slot machines, handheld game consoles and children's toys with either a battery or a plug.
Category 8: Medical Devices
Category 8 covers electrical medical equipment but excluded all implanted and infected electrical medical waste. Examples of devices that are in Category 8 include radiotherapy equipment, cardiology, lab equipment, dialysis, ventilators and other monitoring equipment.
Category 9: Monitoring and Control Equipment
Monitoring and control instruments include smoke detectors, heating regulators, thermostats and other industrial electrical instruments and laboratory equipment.
Category 10: Automatic Dispensers
Automatic dispensers cover a wide range of uses and purposes. Electrical dispensers in category 10 include dispensers for hot drinks, cold drinks, cans, money and other appliances that deliver automatically.
