Throughout the development and relaunch of Acorn Computers, not only have the careful strategic planning for nationwide success been thought over at great length, but the desire and need not to pollute the environment in any way has been at the forefront of our concerns. Because of this, we have complied fully with the RoHS(Reduction of hazardous substances)and WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directives. The RoHS Directive calls on manufacturers to be environmentally responsible and to not intentionally use in their products any homogeneous materials, parts or subassemblies that contain more than 1000 mg/kg each of mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), hexavalent chromium (Cr+6), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), and more than 100 mg/kg of cadmium (Cd).

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, which became effective in August of 2005, mandates manufacturers to collect and recycle products that enter the market after August 13, 2005.

The purpose of the regulations is to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of prohibited substances at the source (RoHS), and then recycle as much of the product as possible after its useful life, in order to minimize the issues of disposal (WEEE).

We take these directives very seriously and fully appreciate their importance as a large British company.