Operations to transfer WEEE and subsequently treat it must be carried out in such a way that they prioritise the reuse of the entire appliances and their components.

As far as the reuse of WEEE is concerned, social insertion companies (SIC) must play an important role in the management models that producers use to achieve compliance with the established objectives of reuse, recycling and recovery of WEEE.

The Agència de Residus de Catalunya therefore collaborates with social insertion and work placement groups by awarding aid for waste projects. Among the initial awards (Resolution MAH/2159/2004, of 27th July) several projects have been chosen that envisage the management of WEEE (awareness enhancement workshops, new recovery initiatives, preparation of disassembly manuals, and collection of material at tips, etc.).

At the same time, in order to prompt solidarity, co-operation and development and promote access to the Information Society and to new technologies by the least privileged sectors of society, on 24th April 2003 the Government of Catalonia created the Solidary and Sustainable Information Society in Catalonia, SISOSCAT, which is sponsored by:

Ministry of Social Welfare and Family Affairs
Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society
Ministry of the Environment and Housing
Ministry of Employment, Industry and Tourism
LOCALRET and the Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineers

SISOSCAT strives to obtain waste computer materials in order, where possible, to repair them for reuse or for use by other people with fewer demands or different demands than the original users.

SISOSCAT
Av. Diagona, 311 bis, 2-2
08013 BARCELONA
Tel. 934 592 886