Design for Recycling

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Design for Recycling Reuse

• IAER Roadmap Development Workshop
• for the Electronics Recycling Industry
  Infrastructure
• April 19, 2001

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• Looking for all stakeholder participation
• OEMs, electronics recyclers, material and
  component supplier, industry associations,
  government and other experts
• Definitions and Processes identification to
• develop common terminology
• establish baseline understanding
• Challenges Opportunities

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• What would the ideal system incorporate
• Industry standard materials
• Industry standard assembly methods
• Easily identified products and parts at
  dissembler
• No hazardous materials usage
• Reuse of most components

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• Disassembly Issues
• Reuse / Recycling of Components
• Plastics Separation and Recycling
• continuity of supply
• market development

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Products, Parts Materials
Product Manf. / Remanf.
Disposal
Part Manf.
Use
Recycle
Raw materials
Parts
Product
Product Reuse
Parts Recycling
Material Recycling
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• WORKSHOP TOPICS
• Development Opportunities

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• DEFINITIONS
• From End-of-Life Design Advisor1
• Reuse Reuse is the second hand trading of
  product for use as originally designed.
• Service Extending the life of a durable product
  or component parts by repairing or rebuilding the
  product using service parts at the location where
  the product is being used.
• Remanufacture Central dismantling and processing
  of large quantities of similar products. Parts
  are collected by type, cleaned, inspected for
  repair and reuse. Remanufactured products are
  reassembled using recovered and new parts.

1. A new Approach to End-of-Life Design Advisor
(ELDS) 2000 ISEE, Catherine M. Rose
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• From End-of-Life Design Advisor1 (cont.)
• Recycle Reclaiming material streams useful for
  application in products. Separation of material
  fractions increases material value by removing
  material contaminants, hazardous materials, or
  high value components.
• Separate first Separate components by manual
  disassembly.
• Shred first Shredded material used to facilitate
  sorting. The shredded material is separated
  using methods based on magnetic, density,or other
  properties.
• Disposal Landfill or incinerate the product with
  or without energy recovery.

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• From last years Design for Reuse - Questions that
  need to be answered
• What is the products current condition?
• Will it be reused for the same application?
• What were the previous application conditions,
  stresses, etc it experienced?

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• From last years Design for Reuse - Opportunities
• Industry data on machine bills of materials
• Identified markets for reused / refurbished
  equipment and parts
• Clearinghouses to identify and solution spare
  parts needs
• OEM part numbers cross referencing capability

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• What are the current challenges?
• No common identification of products, parts, and
  materials.
• Emerging electronics recycling infrastructure
• what

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• First steps to address
• Product and component identification
• Use of common non-hazardous parts materials