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WEEE Directive

One issue that the hon. Gentleman has not yet touched on is the digital switchover. There is a fear that many televisions and video recorders will be obsolete and that a huge mountain of them will have to be coped with. They may not even fall within the terms of the directive if they were bought some time ago. The fear is that many will end up in people’s gardens and be unsightly, or that they will be fly-tipped, which is another problem that may result from the directive.