Vic Clements joins our practice

Dr Aidan Turnbull, Head of ENVIRON's WEEE, RoHS and EcoDesign practice, is pleased to announce that Vic Clements has joined the practice as a Senior Manager based in the Bath, UK, office.

Vic is a chartered environmentalist (CEnv) and a chartered engineer (CEng) and is an active member of both the IEMA and IET (Formally the IEE). He has 39 years experience in the electronics and communications industries and specialises in European environmental product legislation and ecodesign of electronics and wireless products. In particular, Vic has 10 years experience in advising clients in the electronics, wireless and telecommunications industries on compliance with the WEEE and RoHS Directives, and the emerging compliance requirements for the EcoDesign of Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive.

Vic's expertise helps ENVIRON to respond to the growing demand for its web-based systems for WEEE collection, recycling and reporting of business-to-business WEEE across EU Member States. Vic will also play a leading role in ENVIRON's new producer compliance scheme. The UK WEEE regulations require all manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment in the UK to join a producer compliance scheme by 15 March 2007. Failure to join an approved producer compliance scheme will be a criminal offence.

In the medium term, Vic will be drawing on his extensive experience in the electronics industry to develop ENVIRON's new compliance services for the EuP Directive. This will require electronics companies to demonstrate that they have integrated ecodesign requirements into their product development processes, to achieve significant reductions in the environmental impacts of their products across the product life cycle. ENVIRON already has extensive databases of ecodesign technologies and techniques and considerable practical experience in applying these to gain cost and environmental savings from redesign of electronics products. Vic will be building on this track record to provide electronics companies with an integrated approach to cost-effective compliance with EuP.

For further information, please contact Aidan Turnbull
Head of WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420