ELECTRONIC WASTE (WEEE) RECYCLING

Making It Profitable

Though the recycling of electronic waste is becoming a hot industry, historically, this business has not been economically viable. Despite recent laws (WEEE, ELV, etc.), and general popular mandates, the key barrier to success for totally independent entities is the high cost associated with recycling e-waste.

E-waste is a mixture of engineered plastics, some ferrous and non-ferrous material, glass and some waste material that can either be land-filled or needs to be further treated (HazMat). Once reduced to processable piece size range, the X-STREAM can be extremely useful to e-waste processors:

• X-STREAM P sorts engineered plastics into RoHS and high value asset categories
• X-STREAM M classifies non-ferrous metals into Al and Cu groups and/or more specific alloy types
• X-STREAM G sorts CRT glass pieces by OEM chemistry specification