The Customer Recycler Smelter Relationship

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The Customer - Recycler - Smelter Relationship
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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Recyclers serve
• Client Companies
• Return material value at a reasonable cost.
• Process at a reasonable cost
• Statistically reliable and cost effective
  sampling.
• Guarantee destruction of proprietary product.
• Environmentally sound processing and consumption.

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Recyclers serve
• Smelters / Material Processors
• Material form conforming to contract
  requirements.
• Accurate analysis of composition.
• Segregation and classification of material types.

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Recycling hierarchy
• Reuse test and remanufacture
• Resale
• Donation
• Recovery - of reusable components
• Reclaim - of constituents
• Base and precious metals
• Glass
• Plastics
• Paper and corrugated board.

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Economic Consequences
• What is value?
• Least cost
• Best return
• Proper processing and disposal
• Cost / benefit (intangibles)
• Pay extra today to avoid cleanup fees and fines
  tomorrow

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Economic Consequences (cont.)
• Extracting value from the products.
• Reuse or component recovery when applicable.
• Recycling of constituent materials.
• Metals - highly developed recycling programs.
• Glass - developing programs.
• Markets exist at a cost.
• Plastics - difficult, thousands of plastics.
• Low end applications being developed.

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Environmental concerns.
• NiCd batteries
• Lithium Batteries
• Mercury Relays
• Other hazardous constituents
• Effective management of materials lacking
  intrinsic value.
• Cost to handle
• Environmental consequences of mishandling

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Recycler check list.
• Proper operating permits to process your
  material.
• Creditable environmental program.
• Employee workplace safety program for all
  involved co-workers.
• Environmental awareness program.
• Workplace safety training program.
• Proper insurance.
• Audit program for all processors that it uses.
• Complete traceability of all constituents
  including hazardous waste.
• Creditability in their industry.
• Investment in the growth of the business

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Driving force to recycle
• Conservation of resources
• Recycling usually more energy efficient that
  starting with basic ores.
• Protection of the environment
• Must use environmentally compliant processors
• Alternative - localized and world wide
  environmental problems
• Governmental legislation

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products
Recycling

• Localized effects
• Air pollution
• Respiratory problems
• Water pollution
• High infant mortality and birth defect rate
• Shortened adult life span
• World wide effects
• Acid rain
• Possible increase in global warming

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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products Limits
to Recycling

• Economical
• The amount of scrap collected varies with the
  price
• Contained metal values do not always cover the
  cost of recycling
• This may be corrected by charging a destruction
  fee
• Too high cost of recycling (e.g.. manual, labor
  intensive dismantling)
• Fluctuating preconditions, e.g. taxes on energy,
  trade laws

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Material Flow

Reusable Electronics (ics, etc)
Plastic
Cu, Pb As, Zn other
Sulfur Products
Smelter
Recycler
Customers
Scrap EOL Material
Prepared Feed Matl
Scrap EOL Material
Au, Ag Pt, Pd
Base Metals, steel, Al, etc.
Hazardous Materials
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The Recycling Loop
Recycler


Raw Material
Material Processed
Smelter/ Refiner
Customer
Production Materials
Precious Metal
P.M. Fabricator


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Recycling End of Life Electronic Products Limits
to Recycling

• To Summarize
• Proper recycling is not just a way to make
  unwanted or unneeded electronic scrap disappear.
• Proper recycling is a service that should
• Reduce (or eliminate) short term long term
  exposure to environmental liability.
• Provide security for your assets (assured
  destruction of sensitive materials).
• Provide 100 accountability of materials
  processed.