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Re: recycling sex toys in the UK (NSFW)
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By DAVID WOODING
RED-faced women will have to hand in their clapped-out sex toys under a new EU law.
They must take back old vibrators for recycling before they can buy a new one.
Last night shop bosses feared having to handle up to two million a year — putting up prices.
The embarrassing prospect reared its ugly head after a small group of MEPs and civil servants rushed through environment-friendly rules at a meeting behind closed doors.
They FORGOT to list exemptions to the Waste Electrical Equipment Directive — or WEE Directive — which is aimed at stopping household goods ending up dumped in landfill sites.
As a result, the directive applies to battery-operated devices ranging from musical greetings cards to vibrators.
Under the law from August 2005 worn out sex toys should be fixed and resold. Even if there is no market for the second-hand vibrators, more than 80 per cent of the parts must be reused.
A spokesman for the Ann Summers chain of stores said: “We hope our customers wear out before our toys do.
“But we’d definitely need guidance of how to dispose of our toys. I mean it’s not like leaving a TV out for the dustman, is it?”
Martin Jay, co-editor of the Brussels-based Sprout mag, said: “This is fine in principle but impossible to police without weekly Europe-wide inspections of the contents of people’s bin bags.”
Tory MP David Amess said: “This new law will come as a blow to many thousands of people.
“It is yet another example of a crazy, ill-thought-out European directive. It will result in some very embarrassing disclosures.
“This law should end up where any person would deposit unwanted private items — in the dustbin.”
It will cover some 250 household items running on mains or battery power, requiring all with a rating below 1,000 volts to be returned “once its natural life has expired”.
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