WEEE recovery

Recycling and waste management of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

Issue 06/2024 Gentle coarse shredding

Two-Shaft Ripper carefully shreds valuable e-waste and cooling devices

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams. By 2030, a global output of around 75 million t is being estimated [1]. However, this is not just waste: old devices contain vast quantities of...

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E-waste experts urge public: Stop trashing electronic products with ordinary garbage

International E-waste Day 2024: Join the E-Waste Hunt - Retrieve, Recycle, and Revive! To mark the upcoming International E-Waste Day, Oct. 14, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and / or...

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International E-Waste Day 2024: Join the E-Waste Hunt – Retrieve, Recycle, and Revive!

This year International E-Waste Day will focus on motivating people to search for forgotten e-waste hoarded in homes and offices, encouraging them to join the e-waste hunt. The extent of the E-Waste...

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Aurubis invests in innovative system at the Lünen site for fully automated sample preparation

Aurubis has successfully commissioned a new system that is setting new standards in the recycling industry at its Lünen plant. Sample preparation of feed materials, such as e-scrap, is now fully...

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Metal separation at E-Waste World Conference 2024

Maximising metal separation and recovery from e-waste is the focus for Bunting on stand C60 at the E-Waste World Conference and Expo (26 to 27 June 2024, Messe Frankfurt/Germany). The Bunting team is...

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ANDRITZ starts up complete fridge recycling plant for Derichebourg Spain

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully completed the start-up of a complete fridge recycling plant at the Derichebourg España facility in Madrid/Spain. The new recycling plant can...

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Issue 01/2024 The foundation for a successful future

Switzerland’s largest electronic waste sorting plant

STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialising in the planning, production and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, together with weeeSwiss Technology AG, a...

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New project to recycle electric scooters and bikes – ensuring sufficient supply of valuable metals

Electric scooters and e-bikes will be better recycled in the future as the Department of Chemistry at the University of Jyväskylä and the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) in Finland jointly...

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Invisible e-waste in the spotlight of International E-Waste Day

The 6th edition of International E-Waste Day will take place on 14 October, and this year's focus is on an often-overlooked issue – the one of invisible e-waste. All entities interested in electronic...

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Issue 04/2023 Recycling wanted!

Huge mountains of old photovoltaic modules

Photovoltaics are already making a major contribution to energy production and this will continue to grow, because solar energy is considered a sustainable alternative to oil and gas. However, the...

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