Black Box & Reporting

Coming Soon – The Recolight WEEE Hub

We’re excited to share some of the key benefits you can expect from the Recolight WEEE Hub reporting system. It is being designed to offer a seamless, accurate and efficient reporting experience, and will replace the old Black Box system early in the New Year.

    • User Friendly and Visually Appealing
      The Recolight WEEE Hub is a clean, modern design that is easy to navigate. Data is displayed and presented clearly making it easier to understand.
    • Seamless Integration
      It connects smoothly with the Recoweb system that many of you use; helping reduce manual work.
    • Real Time updates
      Ensuring consistency through centralised data and real-time updates.
    • Enhanced Security
      As an in-house system, we have full control over data protection, ensuring security and compliance.
    • Built for the future
      The system is fully flexible and scalable, allowing adaptation as your needs grow or change.

About the Black Box

Recolight Members’ put-on-market (POM) data must be submitted to the environment agency. At Recolight this is done through a WEEE Black Box online reporting system. It’s called a Black Box because it is a secure, partitioned system. The Black Box automatically calculates your monthly invoice.

Black Box Reporting timelines

Monthly reporting

Each month you are required to advise Recolight of your placed on market units and their aggregated weight. An accurate declaration must be made between the first and fifteenth day of each month, following the month end.

Environment Agency rules for declaring are:

  • B2B All goods placed on market within any calendar year must be declared no later than 15 January of the year following.
  • B2C All goods placed on market must be declared quarterly.
  • If your company is declaring B2C, then regardless of unit quantity, you must declare these figures quarterly.

Annual confirmations

An annual confirmation is a confirmation of the information your company has supplied to us throughout the previous year, summarised on a single page document.

You carry out this process after the 16 January each year and have up until the 15 February to complete. It takes just a few minutes.

This is an EA requirement.

Annual Declaration of Compliance

The annual declaration process starts in September each year, and you have until the end of October to return to Recolight. All members are emailed and sent a document with questions; this must be printed, answered, signed by a director or senior manager and then scanned or posted to Recolight.

Link to Black Box