UK recycled metal recycling industry change
Discarded electronic products are not only annoying side. As can be recycled, including the economic and environmental value should not be overlooked. Alone aluminum, iron, copper, zinc and other metal materials recycling can bring considerable benefits. In aluminum, for example, energy recycling of aluminum consumes only 5% of the energy consumed in the production of aluminum by mining.
Power IT revolution has brought positive changes to people's lives dramatically, but also the "e-waste" this problem in front of the whole world. On the one hand, there are a lot of waste electronic products use value was abandoned, on the other hand, a lot of e-waste in the environment of toxic substances on Aftermath of infinity.
Early in the flourishing of personal computers, electronic waste began to flourish. US "Science News" magazine published a century statistics, personal computer only to be eliminated in Britain each year there are 100 million units, and then throw away the rest of the world is countless discarded diskette, added together, every 21 seconds Bell and form a 110-storey "skyscraper."
Discarded electronic products are not only annoying side. As can be recycled, including the economic and environmental value should not be overlooked. Alone aluminum, iron, copper, zinc and other metal materials recycling can bring considerable benefits. In aluminum, for example, energy recycling of aluminum consumes only 5% of the energy consumed in the production of aluminum by mining.
National e-waste problem first appeared earlier addressed. Double promotion of economic and environmental factors, the United Kingdom and other countries have long to act, the current recycling of waste electronic products has formed a complete chain, the development of circular economy, an important industry. Some companies will waste electronics recycling and charitable activities linked to obtaining economic benefits while increasing social benefits.
"Tyre first" company is a typical British many electronics recycling business. This company was founded almost 10 years, mainly recycling monitors, notebook computers. The company based in Manchester warehouses can handle five or six million pieces of electronic equipment each year.
Processing of waste electronic products very tight workflow. First check these electronic devices, to assess the extent of the damage, test whether they can work, then use the value of those computer clean up memory to ensure that its original owner of the information does not drain, and to ensure the safe use of its new owner . Finally, a number of shopping sites sell these after finishing equipment. In addition, there are still some equipment will be donated to the relevant agencies, to play purposes.
According to the company the person in charge, their monthly charitable organization called "computer-aided" to provide a full range of computer accessories 240, through the organization of some computers can also use the gift to children in developing countries of Rwanda and Nigeria.
British like "Tyre first" few such companies. "Computer-aided" organized each year in the UK received "recycling" computer for up to several million units.
In addition to computers, mobile phones in recent years with the accelerating popularity of various countries and update rate, used cell phone has almost become e-waste, "the number one source of pollution."
As the mobile phone parts contain lead, cadmium, mercury and other harmful substances, if discarded directly will seriously pollute the soil and groundwater. A used cell phone battery pollution intensity is 100 times that of ordinary batteries can pollute 60,000 liters of water. If you used the phone in direct incineration, plastic shell will produce chlorine carcinogens and other toxic substances.
According to statistics, the UK every year 18 million mobile phones are replaced, the equivalent of nearly 2,000 phones per hour to be eliminated. Britain is one of the earliest national recycling discarded cell phone business, early in 2002 launched a phone recycling program.
Founded in 2004, "fonebak" is currently the UK's largest mobile phone service providers and recycling companies, with offices and mobile treatment facilities in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other European countries to carry out mobile phone recycling and refurbishing services.
Phone recycling channel for this company to provide customers can be described as extremely convenient. The company and other communications network operators Vodafone signed an agreement to set up a collection point by tens of thousands of old mobile phones at their business and provide old phone mail business free mobile phone sales through the company's operating point for customers to buy a new phone after "readily" posting the old phone to "fonebak" recycling center.
In addition, "fonebak" in cooperation with more than 600 charities and community groups from these institutions to help collect old mobile phones. In recent years, the company also launched online business, providing customers with value mobile phone online assessment and other related services.
For no more than a year and a half, functioning old phone, "fonebak" general will be refurbished with new phones sell for about half the price of its. To reassure consumers, the company also refurbished phone provides six months of quality assurance. Due to the high cost of these phones have quality assurance, very popular with consumers.
No value for refurbished phones, "fonebak" after its demolition will allow each component, each material are "best use." For example, the first metal-containing plastic components were sent to specialized plants burning thermal energy for heating the local countryside; extract platinum, gold, silver, copper and other metal materials burned and sent to specialist treatment after use; pure plastic section are crushed, for the manufacture of road traffic signs, toys and the like; phone batteries were sent to specialized treatment plants, lithium and nickel are recycled, such as nickel used to make the frying pan, iron and new batteries.Prev News：>
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