AGRICULTURE
NovAtel Environmental Compliance
WEEE and RoHS
The European Economic Union'sWaste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is aimed at minimizing the impacts of electrical and electronic equipment on the environment by encouraging manufacturers to design products with recycling in mind and promoting reuse, recycling and recovery of WEEE. The WEEE Directive applies to a huge range of electrical equipment, including NovAtel GNSS products.
The aim of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive is to reduce the hazardous materials content in electronic products. Specifically, it bans electronic equipment from being sold in Europe after July 1, 2006 if it contains more than trace levels of lead, hexavalent chromium, cadmium, mercury or certain brominated flame-retardants.
NovAtel's Role
NovAtel supports both these initiatives and has taken steps to address their requirements. Where necessary, our products are labeled with the following WEEE mark.
This is a reminder to our users to return their equipment to their dealer or a recycling facility at the end of its life. For products not labeled with the WEEE mark, the product serial number can be used to determine the date of manufacture for recycling purposes, as detailed further below.
Date of Manufacture
To assist with recycling efforts, NovAtel labels many of its products with the date the product was manufactured. To determine the date of manufacture, locate the product serial number, an 11-character string starting with three letters that can be found on a label on the product itself. The fourth and fifth characters of the serial number are the last two digits of the year of manufacture. The sixth and seventh characters are the week of the year of manufacture, with week 1 starting the first Monday of the year.