B.J Electronics Ltd Business Model.
In the UK, we benefit from very high standards of living. Increasingly, we have become a wasteful, throwaway society. If we get bored with something (clothes, furniture, etc.), or if fashions change, or new technology comes along, we throw those unwanted items away and buy the latest or most fashionable replacement.
B. J. Electronics (UK) Ltd. (BJE) sees this as an opportunity to convert one person’s unwanted electrical item into another person’s desirable product.
BJE doesn’t collect WEEE that is clearly damaged, dirty, old or dangerous, but has established a network of contacts, whereby WEEE that has been declared by its owners to be in working order, or that otherwise appears to be in good condition, is stored safely to be collected by BJE, or on their behalf by approved agents. BJE has arrangements to pay the waste site operators, in order to encourage them to cooperate with this process.
All electrical items collected, therefore, are considered to have a positive value from the moment they are collected from the site of origin. This is very different from the normal arrangements for WEEE collection, whereby a fee is charged for haulage/treatment/disposal, thus creating a negative value situation, and, potentially, the incentive to look for cheaper disposal routes.
