ELECTRONIC WASTE
WEEE contains valuable metals and materials that can be recycled. Through recycling them, the use of finite natural resources can be reduced. However, electrical appliances often contain harmful substances. These can pose a risk to health and the environment if not disposed of properly.
We accept:
- Production waste of electrical and electronic equipment
- New or not yet installed parts
- Spare parts from repairs and servicing
- Used electronic waste parts
Comment
Though we accept parts of electrical and electronic equipment, post-consumer electrical and electronic equipment in complete form cannot be freely traded in Hungary after 31 July 2023 . This type of material can only be shipped within the MOHU system. As Loacker is not yet part of the MOHU system, please contact MOHU directly: www.mohu.hu
Description of our Wonfurt cable processor
RECYCLING AND RECOVERY OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
Electronic equipment is divided/sorted into seven main groups once it has been delivered to the appropriate collection points. These groups are: large electrical appliances, small electrical appliances, screen equipment, refrigeration equipment. The first step of a proper sorting is important in the recycling process as it is the ideal way to take into account the different requirements of recovery technologies when preparing for recycling.
All discarded used electronic equipment should be broken down into its main components. It is then separated into recyclable and non-recyclable components and fractions of materials. They can then be recycled (reprocessed or used for energy purposes).
The recycling processes used vary depending on the type of electronic equipment used. For example, in the case of refrigeration equipment, the refrigerant-oil mixtures and gases are first removed and safely disposed of. Then the other parts are processed.
WE ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING ELECTRONIC WASTE FROM OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS
(NO PUBLIC TAKEOVER)
- Complete computers and their disassembled components
- Other IT equipment (laptop, photocopier, office equipment)
- Small and large household appliances (refrigerator, cooker, boiler, washing machine)
- Consumer electronics
- Home improvement equipment
- Tube or flat-screen display equipment
- Cable waste
- Inter-production parts, scrap
- Miscellaneous, metal containing, assembled plastic, corkboard waste
- Tools, machinery, control cabinets, transformer housings, equipment for dismantling, crapping, etc. from industrial, factory dismantling, scrapping
Our services
- Electronic waste collection from offices, office buildings, service centres, institutions
- If not possible, hand-loading on request
- Documented destruction or shredding of electronic waste, either individually or by shredding
- Tracking of serial numbers, batch numbers, issue of destruction report
- Processing of production and discarded materials: unpacking, manual sorting
Our services
- Electronic waste collection from offices, office buildings, service centres, institutions
- If not possible, hand-loading on request
- Documented destruction or shredding of electronic waste, either individually or by shredding
- Tracking of serial numbers, batch numbers, issue of destruction report
- Processing of production and discarded materials: unpacking, manual sorting
Cable waste
The cable scrap received by Loacker Hulladékhasznosító Kft. or generated during the dismantling of electronic waste is recycled within the Loacker Group.
The cable waste is transported to the Group’s own cable processing plant in Wonfurt, Germany. Here, it is processed into aluminium, copper and plastic granulate using a multi-stage shredding and sorting process. The resulting granules can be used as secondary raw materials in the metallurgy and plastics industries.
Processing and recovery of electronic equipment
WEEE contains valuable metals and materials that can be reused. This conserves natural resources. But electrical appliances often contain harmful substances. These can pose a risk to health and the environment if not disposed of properly.
The rapid development of electronic and computer equipment is leading to an increasing amount of equipment and components that are no longer needed by their owners.
When these devices are thrown in the bin and then landfilled with municipal waste or incinerated, they pollute the environment, as the hazardous substances they contain (lead, cadmium, mercury) leach out into rainwater or are released into the air when they are incinerated.
In order to prevent the release into the environment of components hazardous to humans and the environment, e-waste must be pre-treated, disposed of and recovered in accordance with the EU’s legal requirements.
There are many secondary materials in electronic waste that are useful for industry, such as ferrous metals, copper cables, PCBs. These secondary raw materials can be recycled into valuable products with much less energy input than processing ores.
Manual and mechanical pre-treatment of electronic waste
Manual pre-treatment is costly because of its labour-intensive nature, but it allows the strict pre-treatment requirements to be fully met.
In our company, manual pre-treatment is partly carried out by workers with reduced working capacity: in our dismantling workshop, a team of four people use hand tools to break down the electronic waste into the components required for subsequent recovery (metal, plastic, copper cables, various categories of PCBs), which are then sent to the various branches of the business as homogeneous, recyclable material (steel, non-ferrous metal, plastic waste) and sorted by category as electronic waste for use in the appropriate processing plant (cable separator, PCB processor, electric motor processor). Manual dismantling is a costly and time-consuming process, so that waste can be processed efficiently by this method where the quantity and quality of the material output is proportional to the time spent (easily dismantled and/or higher value materials).
Mechanical pre-treatment, on the other hand, is effective for the pre-treatment of equipment and tools that cannot be dismantled manually due to their complexity or low content of useful material, and are therefore processed by high-capacity shredders. It is important to note that the strict requirements for mechanical pre-treatment are only met if the e-waste is subjected to professional manual pre-treatment before it is fed into the machines, i.e. the various hazardous components are removed from the waste.
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