Eric Dycus

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Solving the Worlds Problems!

• Eric Dycus
• Jan Halvorsen
• Catherine Nguyen
• Helen Vesser

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Vision

• To profitably extract valuable materials from
  end-of-life computers, monitors, and TVs
• Reduce landfilled electronics waste
• - National Safety Council estimates over 315
  million computers will be obsolete by 2004 adding
  8.5 million tons of waste.
• - Hazardous to water and air quality

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Services

• Provide computer and monitor recycling services
  to environmentally conscious consumers and
  businesses in King and Snohomish Counties

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Marketing Environment

• 33 million computers became obsolete in 2000
• Computer sales increased by more than 23 percent
  per year since 1985
• In King County alone, 335,000 computers are
  expected to become obsolete by 2005

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Projected Sales Market Share

• Estimated we could obtain 11,300 CPUs and 22,600
  CRTs per year
• Projected revenue
• from recycling fees 280,000
• from recovered materials 43,000

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Products Services

• Pick up service to retrieve used computers,
  monitors, and TVs at permanent collection sites
• Secure destruction service for unusable hard
  drives and other information storage systems
• Crush and grind up components in an
  environmentally friendly way
• Separate metals from glass in CRTs for
  reprocessing into raw materials

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Process Diagram
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Process Description

• Collection
• Charge 8 per item
• Location
• Facilities will be located in King County
• Sorting Disassembling
• All computers will be assumed non-working

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Process Description (Continued)

• Grinding
• PCBs first ground into coarse and then fine
  particles
• Grinders operate at 0.1 tons PCBs/hr
• CRTs placed in an Andela Pulverizer System which
  has a capacity of 5 tons/hr

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Process Description (continued)

• Outsourcing Materials
• PCB grindings sent to Midwest Refineries in
  Michigan
• Aluminum and steel sold to Action Recycling in
  Spokane
• Plastics sold to Recycled Plastics Marketing in
  Redmond
• Leaded glass sold to CRT manufacturers

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Equipment Facilities

• Andela CRT Recycling System
• Two Pebble Mill Grinders
• Dust Collection System
• 24 ft. van for collection
• 10,000 ft2 warehouse

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SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• Combination of recycling of both computers and
  CRTs into one business
• Weaknesses
• No refurbishing
• Opportunities
• Expansion into other areas

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SWOT Analysis (Continued)

• Threats
• Legislation must be passed making it illegal to
  dump CRTs in Washington landfills
• Legal barriers in transporting hazardous wastes

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Finances

• FCI 220,000
• This covers cost of equipment and property rental
  for one month
• DCFROR of 10 based on 15 years of operation
• Cash flow becomes positive after year 6

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Staffing Plan

• Two operators for the Andela CRT Recycling System
  and for the grinders at 12.50/hr
• One truck driver at 12/hr
• Four full-time dissemblers at 10/hr
• Management Team

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Major Assumptions

• Collection of 600 tons/yr of electronics based on
  a Massachusetts case study
• 33 each of CPUs, monitors, TVs
• Disassemble 3 pieces of equipment per hour
• Predicted growth of 15
• CRT glass in monitor/TV is 25 of the total
  weight of the unit
• Tax rate of 30