Electronic waste refers to e- waste. Some of the common E-wastes include: home appliances such as televisions, air conditioners, electric cookers and heaters, air condoners, fans; information technology equipment such as computers, mobile phones, laptops, hard disks, and monitors among others; and other electronic utilities such as leisure, lighting, and sporting equipment’s etc.
Reuse after Electronics waste recycling for Green Living
1. Plastic: All the plastic materials retrieved are sent to recyclers who use them to manufacture items such as fence posts, plastic sleepers, plastic trays, vineyard stakes, and equipment holders or insulators among other plastic products.
2. Metal: Scrap metals materials retrieved are sent to recyclers to manufacture new steel and other metallic materials.
3 Glass: A washing line is then used to clear oxides and phosphors from the glass.
Glass sorting is the final step whereby leaded glass is separated from non-leaded glass. The extracts can then be used for making new screens.
4. Mercury: Mercury containing devices are sent to mercury recycling facilities that uses a specialized technology for elimination for use in dental amalgams and metric instruments, and for fluorescent lighting. Other components such as glass and plastics are re-used for manufacture of their respective products.
5. Printed Circuit Boards: Circuit boards are sent to specialized and accredited companies where they are smelted to recover non-renewable resources such as silver, tin, gold, palladium, copper and other valuable metals.
6. Hard Drives: Hard drives are shredded in whole and processed into aluminum ingots for use in automotive industry.
7. Ink and Toner Cartridges: Ink and toner cartridges are taken back to respective manufacturing industries for recycling. They are remanufactured while those that can’t are separated into metal and plastic for re-use as raw materials.
8. Batteries: Batteries are taken to specialized recyclers where they are hulled to take out plastic.
Electronics waste recycling are now online services. You can easily recycle your e-waste. Do you know about a Canadian recycling program that’s not listed here? Leave us a comment and tell us about it.
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Electronics Waste Recycling
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