Datec Technologies Ltd

A Presentation by

Jeff Borrman

Business Development Director

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Who are Datec Technologies?

Internationally Owned

Group turnover in excess of $100 million

Registered Waste Management Company and Waste Carrier

ISO9001-2000 quality certified company

ISO14001 since May 2002

Fully equipped anti-static workstations

Accurate data recording and reportingvia Navision data system

Full component refurbishment to accepted industry standards to JEDEC standards

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Chicago IL Hayward , CA Guadalajara, Mexico Kilwinning, Scotland Helsinki, Finland Hong Kong

DatecDatecTechnologies Limited

Environmental ExcellenceValue Recovery

WEEE CompliantISO9001:2000 ISO 14001

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European LogisticsEuropean LogisticsLogistics collection conforming to European & OECD movement of waste legislation;

UK & Ireland Spain

Portugal Belgium

Denmark Finland

Germany Italy

Sweden Poland

Holland France

Czech Republic Hungary

Norway Austria

Estonia

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What is WEEE trying to Achieve

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WEEE DirectiveWEEE Directive

Aim- To minimise the impacts of electrical and electronic equipment on the environment during their life time and when they become waste.

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Who is responsibleWho is responsible

Producers and Importers (P/Is) of electrical & electronics to the UK regardless of size and market shire.

Brand named products are classified, in this case, as the responsible company.

Sub-assemblies by another manufacturer within a branded product are still the responsibility of the brand name.

Sub-assemblies sold on the open market are classified as branded products.

Product design to take into account the environmental impact.

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Brief Guide to WEEEBrief Guide to WEEE• Covers both domestic and business to business markets.

• Covers all electrical and electronic devices up to 1500V.

• Medical and all military applications are exempt.

• Hazardous components to be disassembled

• Recycling targets.

• Reuse of whole units not included and component parts are.

• Current targets for domestic takeback is 4Kgs per head of population. UK already achieves in the region of 12Kgs.

• WEEE to take into account RoHS, EWC and other directives.

• Producer/Importer to be responsible for the financing and collection of WEEE!!!

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Financing & Collection of WEEEFinancing & Collection of WEEE

• Business to Business recovery/recycling and reuse to be encouraged. B2B financially more rewarding!

• Its is proposed that a National Clearing House is set up devolved from the Government. (Scotland want to have their own NCH). SEWPF proposal

• Producers/Importers will have to register with the NCH

• Financing will be according to market shire.

• The NCH will organise collection of materials from recycling centres and/or civic amenity sites to approved recyclers. (mostly geared to the domestic market).

• Could create a monopoly in the recycling industry!

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Legislative Considerations Legislative Considerations

Waste Management License (Site and Carrier)

Landfill Directive

Battery Directive

Basel Convention (In force for 11 years)

Trans-frontier Shipment Regulations

European Waste Catalogue

EA/SEPA interpretation of the laws!

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Legislative ConsiderationsLegislative Considerations

P/Is have a Duty of Care to ensure their products are recycled in an environmental manner and their recycling partners have the appropriate “know how”, accreditations and waste management licences. Reuse and resale are to be encouraged.

The WEEE Directive will require recyclers to have at least ISO14001 and the “appropriate” WML.

The UK Government may bring in another “ compliance accreditation”.

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Legislative ImpactsLegislative ImpactsThe WEEE Directive interacts with other directives. If an item is not considered fit for the original purpose it may be considered as waste! Even some materials moved across border for repair maybe classified as waste! (England & Wales differ in the interpretation of waste to Scotland.

Some countries like Estonia are classifying all WEEE as hazardous waste.

Movement of waste nationally follows the EWC classifications. Internationally the movement of waste follows the OECD Basel Convention on the trans-frontier movement of waste regulations (TFS)

Materials that are “green listed” in one directive maybe hazardous waste (“amber listed”) in the other.

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Directive Impact on MaterialsDirective Impact on Materials

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

•EWC/TFS circuit boards are green waste

•Removal of circuit boards >10cm²and hazardous components.

•From large units or mobile phones

•If recovery reduces the environmental impact or aids reuse

•Mobile phones are currently hazardous waste.

analytical make up (without batteries) are close to lots of other populated boards!

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Directive Impact on MaterialsDirective Impact on MaterialsCRTs/LCDs

•Barium/Strontium panel glass reuse in TV glass.

•Lead based funnel glass limited reuse in TV glass

Reuse in ceramics industry.

•Refining for lead and use of silica in the slagging process.

•LCDs >100cm² + all with gas discharge lamps. (mercury or neon). Neon is non hazardous!

•LCD, is hazardous or non hazardous? (silica, amorphous silicon, chrome?)

•Reuse in the glass and refining industry!

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Directive Impact on MaterialsDirective Impact on Materials

PLASTICS

•Many plastics, if in virgin state, can be recycled.

•Most plastics as WEEE are contaminated which makes recycling difficult.

•WEEE missed the opportunity to add a minimum recycle rate.

•Brominated plastics to be removed. What about PVC?

•Landfill or incineration.

•If attached to metals for refining , can be used as a reducing agent for heavy metals.

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Domestic v BusinessDomestic v Business

•Domestic WEEE tends to be old and broken before disposed off.

•High cost of removal of hazardous items in relation recycling value.

•Little or no reuse value.

•Collection cost make it more suitable for schemes.

•Far better as shredder fodder and recovery.

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Domestic v BusinessDomestic v Business

•Recovery of Business WEEE has been going on for decades.

•Business WEEE tend to be newer and probably still in use when recovered from corporate.

•Service Centre & Production waste has both value and cost.

•Possible recovery of components for reuse. Higher value.

•Can be self financing!

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Recycling EffectivelyRecycling Effectively

•ISO 9001 2000 & 14001 are important.•Audit trails, environmental and financial are just as important.•Defined process flows.•Recording of reporting of data.•EMS information so P/Is can report back WEEE information.•Experienced electronics recyclers have good working knowledge of legislation, hazards etc.

•Do not be afraid of reuse!

•Beware of recyclers who “do it for nothing”

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2.0 PROCESS

Sort phones by model

Record qty. by model in excel

DQF-006

Input job number

Barcode in excel, each phone using

IMEI number

Disassemble by batch Place phones in ESD bins

Disassemble phone for parts & remove labels

Parts good

No Scrap for recycling as per DQI-003

Grade, count &

batch

Yes

Boards for chip recovery per

DQI-001 Audit, enter into

Navision & pack

* front and back plastic * housing * PCB board * LCD * vibrator * speaker * screws * keypad * antenna * charger connector * power button * sim connector * microphone * ringer

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**Defined in DQI-022/28/29 if HP R1 - Good re-saleable stock (blue label) R2 - Teardown stock (white label in Kilwinning, yellow in Warrington) R3 - Scrap stock (green label)

R1 R3

Fractions

Weigh

Disposal

Green Label Teardown

**

R22

R1 Part?

Yes

Fixable

Rebuild

Saleable Fails

Fail Yes

No

No

Yes

*Defined in DQI-015/17/19/24 if required

Pass

No

Appendix B: IT Recovery Process

Yes No

QA if req. Stores

(blue label)

Product Specific Tests *

Test Required

Check In as per DQI-014/24

Goods In (white label)

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Appendix A: IC Recovery Process Goods In

Stores White Label

(Consignment S&S/service)

Spot Buy Blue label

Checked for cosmetic condition

against terms of PO/job

instructions.

Scrap Green label

R3

Good stock Blue label

R1

Processing

Pulling DQI-001/3/5/6, Sort DQI-007, mobile phones

DQI-009/16/18/21, Service jobs DQI-013

Stores DQI-012/23

On hold/RMA stock

Red label

Material QA audit if required

Service Jobs worked, then returned to customer or disposed of.

To specialised waste facility for further

recycling

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2 reuse/not 2 reuse2 reuse/not 2 reuse

• Reuse is encouraged in the WEEE directive.

• Will it effect new sales market share?

• Will it compromise warrantees?

• Will it put off recycling to third world countries?

• Resale of industry standard components.

• Reuse of harvested parts for service centres.

• Reuse can enhance recycling values.

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Question?Question?

When a electrical retailer sells their customer service returns on the open market, are they selling WEEE?

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Useful ContactsUseful Contacts

DTI WEEE Directive info:http://www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability/weee/

index.htm

Ban Organisation:http://www.ban.org

Datec Technologies Ltd:jeffb@datectech.co.uk

SEWPF National Clearing House proposal:

Email: sewpf@pswg.org.uk