WEEE Directive Options for Recycling

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WEEE Directive Options for Recycling
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WEEE Directive options for Recycling

• As it used to be
• Drivers
• WEEE Directive as a processor
• Large WEEE Household white goods
• Small WEEE Toasters to toys
• Cathode Ray Tubes Computers / TVs
• IT Computer base units and Electronics
• Future

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Drivers

• EPA 1990
• Landfill Directive
• End of Life Vehicle Directive
• WEEE Directive
• RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous
  Substances Directive)
• Battery Directive

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WEEE Directive as a Processor

• Large Complicated Document
• Simple execution
• Licence and infrastructure
• Collection and segregation of grades
• Size reduction
• Final separation of materials
• Plant complicated or basic

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Large WEEE Household white goods

• Treated as scrap metal
• Fragmentiser
• Cars
• Contamination
• Post shredder technology

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Small WEEE Toasters to Toys

• Large v Small processing machinery
• 4 tonnes per hour
• Spirit of WEEE directive
• Better / cleaner finished product

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Toasters to Toys - Processing

• Collection / delivery
• Weighbridge / agreed Protocols
• Receiving/checking any obvious hazards?
• Shred
• Picking line
• Granulator
• Separation

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Finance

• Various Schemes
• WRAP eQuip Scheme
• Residual value underwritten by WRAP 20
• 6.5 m financed over last 2 years????
• Our finance was provided by Bank of Scotland
  Corporate Asset Finance but a list of providers
  is available from Envirolink Northwest

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Toasters to Toys - Processing

• Mixed material Currently sent off site by
  choice
• Process further granulate smaller, shaker or
  water tables, Electrostatic separation
• Further investment circa. 200k
• Polymers extrusion to mixed plastic products
• Polymers extrusion to pellets
• Heat process turns product into commodity no
  longer waste

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Cathode Ray Tubes Computers / TVs

• Hazardous Waste Consignment notes
• Different types of processing machines
• Receive
• Test
• Re-Use - UK / Export
• Trans frontier shipment regulations

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Cathode Ray Tubes Computers / TVs

• Dis-assembly
• Separation
• Further / final processing

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DVD
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IT Computer base units and Electronics

• Re Use
• Test / Technicians
• Hand breakdown liberate boards
• Shred as small WEEE

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Future

• Community Initiatives Commercial Bias
• - Employment EMPRISE.org.uk
• - Recyclinglives.co.uk

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Future

• - Going for Gold Bejing
• - Chris Newton

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Future

• - 2012 London
• - Manufacturing

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WEEE Directive Options for Recycling