“Our DataDomain unit has significantly reduced our backup and restore burden. Tape usage, which previously required weekly manual intervention, is now reduced to an occasional rotation for off-site storage. Even with our wide variety of data, including everything from e-mail to already compressed data sets, we are seeing an aggregate 10x compression ratio. The increased capacity and flexibility our DataDomain unit provides allows us more backup options for our departmental users and has made backups and restores an order of magnitude faster.” — Scott Karlin
Manager, Computing Facilities, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

WEEE Compliance in Europe: United Kingdom

Registration number for UK WEEE Regulations: WEE/JH0078UU

Collection and Recycling Arrangements in the United Kingdom

Under the proposed UK Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations, for equipment that you buy from Data Domain after August 2005, Data Domain is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE that your new purchase replaces, on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis. The old equipment that your new purchase from Data Domain replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE.

Under the UK WEEE Regulations, Data Domain is also required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from Data Domain after August 2005, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE.

Data Domain is required to provide these arrangements starting from 1 April 2007.

Data Domain products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Data Domain is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products Data Domain has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers. We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address.

Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs is:

  • Data Domain pays for the costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the WEEE to meet the targets set by the WEEE Regulations;
  • Data Domain pays for the costs of data management and reporting to the Environment Agency to demonstrate compliance with all administrative requirements of the WEEE Regulations;
  • You pay for transportation of your WEEE to Data Domain's appointed recycler in the UK.

Data Domain has established a recycling contract with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) and will cover any costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the equipment on arrival at the EARN facility in the UK. All New WEEE that arises from the purchase of Data Domain products is classed as non-hazardous waste.

It is your responsibility to arrange and pay for costs of collection and transportation to EARN. In order to meet UK Duty of Care Regulations for waste disposal, you should use one of the following carriers (which hold a valid Waste Carriers licence):

Waste Carrier Telephone Number Website
TNT UK Ltd +44 (0)800 100600 www.tnt.co.uk
DHL International (UK) Ltd +44 (0)8701 100300 www.dhl.co.uk
Christian Salvesen PLC +44 (0)870 3655714 www.salvesen.com

For larger quantities of waste, you may want to contact the recycler directly to arrange and pay for alternative collection arrangements. The Data Domain recycler in the United Kingdom is:

Recycler Telephone Number Website
TechnoWaste +44 (0)1268 728511 www.technowaste.com

To comply with the UK Duty of Care Regulations the transport of your waste to the recycler must be accompanied by suitable documentation. You must also keep a signed copy of this documentation for two years.

In order to meet this requirement and to enable EARN to identify Data Domain equipment upon arrival at the recycler's address, please download the Recycling Label for British Customers. Complete the label with your company details and attach it to a suitable box for transport to EARN.

WEEE Reporting Recycling Data for Data Domain Equipment in the United Kingdom

Under Section 29 of of the proposed WEEE Regulations, Data Domain must provide annual information on the quantities and categories of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market, reused, recycled and recovered within the UK.

The first WEEE recycling report will cover the period January 2007 to December 2007. EARN will prepare the recycling data report for Data Domain.