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Transferring electrical or electronic products to disposal facility outside Singapore

Resource Sustainability (E-waste Recyclers) Regulations 2021

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—(1) A licensed e‑waste recycler must not transfer any regulated product to another person who operates one or more disposal facilities outside Singapore (called in this regulation the foreign recycler) that process or treat one or more categories of regulated products specified in the first column of Part 1 of the Second Schedule, except in accordance with paragraph (2).(2) A licensed e‑waste recycler may transfer a regulated product to a foreign recycler if the licensed e‑waste recycler takes reasonable steps to satisfy itself that the foreign recycler will ensure that the weight of materials recovered by the foreign recycler in each compliance year, for each category of regulated product, is not less than the material recovery target weight for that category of regulated product calculated for that compliance year in accordance with paragraph (3).(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the material recovery target weight for a category of regulated product in any compliance year, is the weight (in kilogrammes) calculated according to the following formula:where —(a)A is the total weight of regulated products in that category which is received by the foreign recycler during that compliance year;(b)B is the total weight of regulated products in that category which is received by the foreign recycler at any time during the compliance year immediately preceding that compliance year and stored unprocessed and untreated in the preceding compliance year;(c)C is the total weight of regulated products in that category which is received by the foreign recycler at any time but is stored at the end of that compliance year by the foreign recycler in an unprocessed and untreated condition; and(d)D is the corresponding material recovery target for regulated products in that category, specified in the second column of Part 1 of the Second Schedule, for that compliance year.(4) In this regulation, the weight of materials recovered in a compliance year from each category of regulated products received is the sum of the following:(a)the total weight of regulated products in that category, prepared for re‑use in that compliance year;(b)the total weight of recycled materials recovered from the regulated products in that category in that compliance year.(5) A licensed e‑waste recycler must not transfer any electrical or electronic product (whether or not that product is a regulated product) to a foreign recycler, unless the licensed e‑waste recycler has taken reasonable steps to satisfy itself that the foreign recycler will —(a)prepare the electrical or electronic product for re‑use; or(b)remove all specified pollutants from the electrical or electronic product (whether or not that product is a regulated product) when processing or treating that product, and process or treat the specified pollutants removed so as to prevent the specified pollutants from polluting the environment.(6) A licensed e‑waste recycler who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1) or (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

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