Title: ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
1ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
International Association of Electronics
Recyclers
Revised 2006
2CONTENTS
- INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
- General Perspectives
- Highlights from the IAER Industry Report
- Industry Survey
- Industry Research
- CHALLENGES
- OBSERVATIONS
3KEY DRIVERS
- Increasing volumes
- Expanding pervasiveness of electronics
- Shorter lifespan of electronics technologies
- Large inventory of obsolete electronics
- Concerns
- Landfill
- Hazardous materials
- Export
- Challenges
- Logistics
- Costs
4ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT - TYPES
- Commercial
- computers, office, financial
- Industrial
- Telecom, Manufacturing, Medical
- Automotive
- Defense Aerospace
- Consumer
- PCs, video, audio, wireless, personal, games
5ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT - CONTENT
- REUSABLE
- Units (e.g., PCs, Printers, Monitors)
- Components (e.g., Drives, Memory, Processors)
- RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
- Metals (precious, base)
- Glass (CRT)
- Plastics
6INDUSTRY SEGMENTS
- Asset Management
- inventory, disposition planning, resale
- Broker
- auction, resale, export
- Re-Use for resale at product level
- Resale/As-Is
- Repair/Refurbish /Upgrade/enhance
- De-Manufacturing
- disassembly separation of parts and materials
- Recovery of Parts Subassemblies
- Test/Classify/Re-use/Sale
- Materials Recovery Recycling (plastics, metals,
glass) - separate, prepare for recycling
- Materials Processing/Refining (glass, metal,
plastics) - shred, grind, pelletize, refine
7ELECTRONICS RECYCLING INDUSTRY PROCESS MODEL
- SOURCES/GENERATORS
- Field Returns
- Surplus
- Trade-Ins
- Obsolete/EOL
OEMs USERS LEASCOs
TRIAGE
- ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
- INDUSTRY SEGMENTS/OPERATIONS
- Asset Management
- Broker
- Re-Use
- De-Manufacturing
- Parts Recovery
- Materials Recovery
- Materials Processing
As-Is Repair Refurbish
RESALE
Scrap Equipment
Disassembly Recover Parts Separate Materials
RESALE
Materials
Shred, Grind, Separate Refine, Smelt, Melt,
Pelletize
Metals, Glass, Plastics
Primary Materials Processors
8ELECTRONICS RECYCLERS in the USA
(data from IAER database)
Number of Recyclers
Not including OEMs NFPs
2005
2003
9For more information including ordering, go to
the web page at http//www.iaer.org/communication
s/indreport.htm
10HIGHLIGHTS from IAER SURVEY (Conducted in 2005)
- Electronics recycling operations in the USA
- over 500
- Employees 19,000
- Annual Revenue US1.5 billion
- Annual Volumes processed
- 2.8 billion pounds (1.4M tons)
- including 65 million units of computer equipment
- electronics recycling process yielded 1.3
billion pounds of recyclable materials
11WASTE STREAM DATAConsumer Electronics in
Municipal Solid Waste - EPA
Millions of Tons - Generated
12CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
- U.S. Sales Trends (Consumer Electronics
Association) - Total 2005 sales to increase 11 to 126 Billion
- DTV sales increased 78 in 2004 to 7.3M units
- Sales of portable MP3 players expected to exceed
10 M units in 2005 - 2005 sales of digital cameras expected to be more
than 20 M units - Cell phone sales expected to reach 90 M units in
2005 - and
- Global shipments of flat-screen monitors exceeded
CRTs in 2004
13CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Average of CE Products Per
Household (CEA)
14HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONIC WASTEEstimated Replacements
over 20 Years
Consumers Union
Number of Units
15CELL PHONE TRENDS
U.S. Subscribers - millions
CTIA Industry Survey
16FLORIDA BRANDS STUDY Product Types Collected
Others
Printers
TVs
Computers
CRT Monitors
by weight
17FLORIDA BRANDS STUDY Product Types by Vintage
Age in Years
Oldest
Avg.
18EPA PLUG-IN PILOT PROGRAMSGood-Guys
Materials Recycled
Plastics
Glass
19CHALLENGESfacing YOUR electronics recycling
operations
- Cost of operations
- Sources of equipment
- Markets for outputs
- Capacity
- Prices for materials parts
- Other
20CHALLENGESfacing the electronics recycling
INDUSTRY
- Legislation/regulations
- Logistics/transportation
- Consumer/residential electronics
- Product take-back programs
- Plastics recycling
- Recycling technology
- Other
21INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
- Most Respondents Felt That
- Regulations have helped the industry
- RD is important to electronics recycling
- There needs to be more communications
- It is important to achieve some type of
certification
22IAER
Web Site - http//www.iaer.org Email -
Info_at_iaer.org