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MeWa Recycling reprocesses cooling units | | |
| | The German company MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH commissioned a new plant for recycling cooling units in Kematen, Lower Austria on 11 February. The operating company UFH Recycling GmbH, which is based in Vienna, is a joint venture between the UFH Holding GmbH and the German waste management company Remondis. [more ...] |
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Precious metals remain in scrapped electronic devices | | |
| | When an old television is finally thrown away, it is broken up and separated into individual parts. However, the Technical University of Berlin has determined that one particular fraction is often neglected. [more ...] |
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Irish machine manufacturer crushes e-waste into compact bales | | |
| | LSM Engineering Ltd., Ireland’s leading manufacturer of balers, has expanded its range of waste disposal balers to include the Kerrush WR6500H. The Kerrush WR6500H has been developed in order to assist recycling companies affected by the European WEEE directives for dealing with e-waste. [more ...] |
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Interview: EARN-Commercial Manager van Kalkeren comments the WEEE-Directive | | |
| | The European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) offers all WEEE-related services in almost all European countries. EARN also keeps track on legal developments on European and country level. "The obstacle that we find in WEEE legislation is not different from what our customers experience. It is up to the governments to control compliance of the producers and the service providers", says EARN's Commercial Manager Bart van Kalkeren in an interview with the RECYCLING magazin. [more ...] |
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Contaminated components remain unscathed | | |
| | MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH has developed a new machine for shredding electrical and electronic scrap. According to the Gechingen-based company, the Smash Boom Bang does not damage toxically contaminated components such as capacitors, batteries or colour cartridges, which means that the parts can be sorted out afterwards without difficulty. [more ...] |
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“In Germany there is a lack of supervision” | | |
| | Sims is Europe’s largest e-waste recycler. Hans-Otto Hagemann, Managing Director Continental Europe, talks about the market, its opportunities and its problems. [more ...] |
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Pioneering work in the mountains | | |
| | At one end of the plant there is a crane that looks like it has been put together in someone’s backyard. At the other end of the building sorted waste fractions are falling out of pipes. In between is a building which houses one of the most up-to-date recycling plants for processing waste electrical and electronic equipment in the whole of Austria. The roughly 800-square-metre site is the home of “elektronik altgeräte recycling west gmbh”, or “ear” for short. [more ...] |
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Coming Full Circle | | |
| | Japan’s Sharp Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of LCD displays, which are becoming an ever greater percentage of electronic appliances waste. At the company headquarters, a philosophy of closed material cycles has been gaining influence for years. [more ...] |
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Unification yes, unity no | | |
| | The EU Commission is back-pedalling in its official proposal to amend the WEEE directive. It now no longer considers a single European registration body to be a suitable solution. [more ...] |
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