Integrated Waste Management and challenges within the WEEE directive

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Integrated Waste Managementand challenges within
the WEEE directive

• The WEEE directive ( for category 1)
• 75 weight- material recycled or reused
• 80 weight- total recovery
• LCA case study
• Recycling of a refrigerator containing HCs as
  cooling agent and insulation gas
• Collected and recycled in Sweden
• Scenarios
• recycling process fulfils the WEEE directive
• use of an ordinary shredder.

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• Expanded system
• Replaced material
• Replaced heat and energy production
• Achieved recycling results
• Ordinary shredder
• Recovery 71
• Material recycling reuse 54
• WEEE scenario
• Recovery 95
• Material recycling reuse 79

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Results and conclusions

• Characterisation results
• The establishment of the WEEE directive will
  increase the environmental benefit of recycling
• Challenges for recyclers
• the WEEE directive will not be achieved if the
  ordinary shredders of today are used,
• the WEEE directive can be achieved if the
  refrigerator shredders of today are complemented
  with additional technology
• glass, plastics, and PUR-foam must be recycled to
  a greater extent than today.