Who We Are
Over 20 years of enduring partnerships offering Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) expertise throughout Europe and beyond.
The European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) – is a specialist service provider with 26 team members based across Germany and the United Kingdom. We support you, as the product manufacturer and importer, by implementing tailored compliance solutions to meet your legal obligations under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE, or E-Waste), Batteries, Packaging and Textiles regulations. Our dedicated team has unrivalled in-depth knowledge of EPR legislation across Europe plus rest-of-the-world (ROW) countries where new and emerging EPR requirements exist.
We were founded by a group of leading European recyclers of the BeNeLux countries in 2003 to help manufacturers meet the onerous requirements under the first WEEE Directive. To this day, we are still owned by our recycling partners Electrocycling GmbH in Germany, Renewi plc in the Netherlands and Indumetal Recycling SA in Spain. Our long-term customers are diverse and include numerous large well-known multinational producers of IT equipment, consumer electronics, professional-use products, domestic appliances, Electric Vehicles (EVs), industrial batteries and textiles.
We are totally unique in the field of Extended Producer Responsibility. Not only do we fully manage your registration and compliance reporting obligations under the WEEE, Batteries, Packaging and Textiles regulations in Europe, but through our extensive partner recycling network, we manage the actual take-back and recycling of your products and batteries when they reach end-of-life.
Active in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) since 2005
Our Goal – keeping EPR simple since 2005!
Because let’s be honest – EPR compliance is complicated.
From the outset, our purpose has always been for manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic products to easily meet their obligations under the WEEE Directive (and subsequent EPR regulations). Our job has always been to provide our customers a simple, transparent and painless route to managed EPR compliance. By offering this, our customers can focus their energy on doing what they do best – selling their products.
From our range of fully managed EPR compliance solutions, providing straight-forward guidance and advice when you need it (we really are experts in our field – take a look at our experience below…), as well as reliable and timely take-back and recycling of WEEE and batteries through our Europe-wide network of treatment facilities. We truly are your flexible service provider in Europe.
Simple really!
Our Locations
Our Team
Managing Director – EARN ElektroaltgerÃĪte Service GmbH
When Kai finds some time for himself, he walks his dogs through the forests of the Harz Mountains. But he can only really switch off when on-board a sailing vessel on the Baltic Sea.
Management Assistance & Data Coordination
She also loves Italian food after a good hike or a long bike trip and has a passion for languages and cultures.
Managing Director – EARN Service Ltd (UK)
After he shuts his laptop down, he enjoys long walks surrounded by nature, dabbling in classic car restoration and when not riding his old Italian motorbike, may also be found spending time broken-down at the roadside despondently trying to repair his old Italian motorbike.
EPR Regulatory Expert (WEEE, Batteries, Packaging, Textiles)
When Cecilia can be pulled away from her spreadsheets, you may find her amusing/confusing people with her Australianisms, in full devotion to her dog, or exploring the world and learning new languages with a bag packed with an intriguing book plus hiking gear, a swimsuit, or a ball gown.
EPR Regulatory Expert (WEEE, Batteries, Packaging, RoHS, REACH, Prop 65)
While not at the desk helping clients or spending time with his family, Bob has several hobbies and passions ranging from cycling and golf, to baking and horticulture.
Sales – WEEE, Batteries & Packaging
In his free time, he likes to be out in nature doing forestry work and gardening, hiking and doing sports.
Sales – WEEE (B2C Germany), Batteries & Packaging
After work, he enjoys cycling or hiking in the countryside or singing in various a cappella formations.
Team Management: Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
She is a family person who loves long walks in the nature, and cuddling her cat when at home. In her free time you might also find her watching action and horror movies.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
When not working, her activities include going for short walks (Camino de Santiago) or other hikes (sometimes with a tent in her backpack). She is an avid âScrapbookerâ and loves taking photos. Bookshops are another favourite haunt as well as being by the sea.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
He is very much committed to animal welfare and is a keen footballer.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
He enjoys going on trips with his family, has a great passion for soccer and loves hiking.
Compliance Services â Registration/Reporting
Providing great customer service is what inspires Rabia and when she’s not looking after clients, she enjoys travelling, reading books, socialising and volunteering her time to help others. She also loves nature and going for walks as well as playing the Turkish “Saz” musical instrument.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
She is a passionate animal advocate, crazy cat lady and vegan food enthusiast. While Ireland is her all-time favourite country, her happy place is her little house with the big wildlife garden â and âanywhere by the seaâ.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
Her heart beats for animals and travelling – so in her free time you are very likely to find her somewhere in Europe with her self-built camper, together with her husband and dog.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
Compliance Services â Registration / Reporting
In her free time, she pursues her passion for sport, healthy eating and cooking. She can also be found walking in the countryside. Her âsafe placeâ is her husband, their house and the garden they share. She loves to travel together with her husband â her absolute favourite destination and very special place is Greece.
Compliance Services – Registration / Reporting
Compliance Services â Registration/Reporting
Compliance Services â Take Back
In his private life, he loves to travel: hiking through nature, visiting castles, palaces and medieval markets (also in costume). He also enjoys photography and is active in sports.
Compliance Services â Take Back
In his free time he either rides his bike or walks and explores the Harz Mountains. He is also passionate about IT and other technologies.
Compliance Services â Take Back
In his free time he enjoys swimming and hiking and enjoying the local nature.
Head of Finance & Accounting
He played a lot with fire and candles in his youth â today he burns for facts and figures. There’s little that can draw him away from his cherished realm of numbers, but if anything could, it would likely be the aroma of a piping hot pizza.
Finance & Accounting
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his friends. He also likes to travel, especially to his home country, TÞrkiye.
Finance & Accounting
Finance & Accounting
When not crunching numbers, she enjoys gardening, cooking and crafting that provides a great sense of joy and relaxation to balance her professional life.
Finance & Accounting
When not juggling numbers, he enjoys going to the gym, swimming or having a sauna. He also likes watching movies and playing video games.
Finance & Accounting
In her free time, she looks after her family and the animals on her horse farm.
If time permits, she also enjoys carriage driving with her ponies.
Finance & Accounting
In his spare time, he spends time with his dog, creating video content, live streaming games or playing the guitar and piano.
Want to Join Us?
Our team members are truly EARN’s greatest asset. It is only through their dedication, their commitment, their flexibility and their ideas that EARN has successfully fulfilled its core philosophy over the past 20 years – to make Extended Producer Responsibility simple for the manufacturer.
Our main team is located in our Goslar head office in the Harz region of Germany and we also have staff working for our United Kingdom subsidiary, all of whom are dedicated to our customers day in, day out. From admin assistants, environmental scientists to engineers, we are a diverse and talented bunch of individuals, each bringing their own unique strengths to our business.
We operate an open and fair corporate culture, where everyone is valued, each voice is heard and each person is on an equal footing. What does this mean? A strong team spirit and great working atmosphere. Your work at EARN will be varied, wide-ranging (sometimes even challenging!), but always in a supportive, nurturing and rewarding environment.
Become part of the team and design innovative take-back solutions throughout Europe with us!
If there are currently no advertised vacancies, you could still be a perfect match for our team. We therefore welcome speculative CV applications.
Contact our Management Assistant Linda with your CV.
Benefits of Working at EARN
Positive Working Atmosphere
Open and cooperative communication within the team. Flat team structures with everyone on an equal footing. Scope for ideas, personal and professional development. We strive to provide an environment supporting good mental health for all of our team
Flexible Working Hours
Flexitime in line with operational capacities; work-from-home and part-time options considered on an individual basis. Supporting a healthy work-life balance is our focus.
Fair Pay & Secure Pensions
Performance-related pay; transparent staff appraisal processes, support with voluntary retirement savings through the company.