Collection and Recycling Arrangements in United Kingdom

Under the UK Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations, for old equipment that you have bought before August 2005 which is being replaced on a one-for-one, like-for-like basis by the purchase of new Pure Storage equipment, Pure Storage is required to provide arrangements for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of the old equipment. The old equipment that your new purchase from Pure Storage replaces is referred to as Historic WEEE.

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

Pure Storage products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Pure Storage is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products, Pure Storage 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:

• Pure Storage pays for the costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the WEEE to meet the targets set by the WEEE Regulations;
• Pure Storage 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 Pure Storage's appointed recycler in the UK.

Pure Storage 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 recycling facility in the UK. All new WEEE that arises from the purchase of Pure Storage products is classed as non-hazardous waste and does not contain Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) to class it as hazardous WEEE. As the waste holder, it is your responsibility to confirm that the waste Pure Storage equipment has not become hazardous during the product use. For example, if the equipment has become contaminated during use, please follow the recommended decontamination procedure.

It is your responsibility to arrange and pay for costs of collection and transportation to the recycler. To request collection and transport of WEEE, please use the following link:

https://b2btool.earn-service.com/purestorage-parcel/parcelselect

For further information please contact EARN directly by email: office@earn-service.com

For larger quantities of waste, you may want to contact the recycler directly to arrange and pay for alternative collection methods. The EARN recycling facility in the United Kingdom is:

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 Pure Storage 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.

Recycling Label for British Customers

WEEE Reporting Recycling Data for Pure Storage Equipment in United Kingdom

Under Section 27 of of the WEEE Regulations, information on the quantities and categories of Pure Storage electrical and electronic equipment put on the market, reused, recycled and recovered within the UK must be reported by the end of each compliance period.

The first WEEE recycling report will cover the period 2012. EARN will prepare the recycling data report for Pure Storage. Information in the EARN recycling data report will be summarised on the Pure Storage website when it becomes available.