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Datec Technologies Ltd
A Presentation by
Jeff Borrman
Business Development Director
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 reporting
via Navision data system
 Full component refurbishment to accepted industry standards to
JEDEC standards
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Global
About Us
Reach
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Datec
Technologies Limited
Environmental Excellence
Value Recovery
WEEE Compliant
ISO9001:2000 ISO 14001
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Chicago IL
Hayward , CA
Guadalajara, Mexico
Kilwinning, Scotland
Helsinki, Finland
Hong Kong
European Logistics
Logistics 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 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 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 WEEE
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Covers both domestic and business to business markets.
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Covers all electrical and electronic devices up to 1500V.
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Medical and all military applications are exempt.
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Hazardous components to be disassembled
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Recycling targets.
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Reuse of whole units not included and component parts are.
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Current targets for domestic takeback is 4Kgs per head of
population. UK already achieves in the region of 12Kgs.
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WEEE to take into account RoHS, EWC and other
directives.
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Producer/Importer to be responsible for the financing and
collection of WEEE!!!
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Financing & Collection of WEEE
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Business to Business recovery/recycling and reuse to be
encouraged. B2B financially more rewarding!
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Its is proposed that a National Clearing House is set up
devolved from the Government. (Scotland want to have
their own NCH). SEWPF proposal
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Producers/Importers will have to register with the NCH
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Financing will be according to market shire.
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The NCH will organise collection of materials from
recycling centres and/or civic amenity sites to approved
recyclers. (mostly geared to the domestic market).
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Could create a monopoly in the recycling industry!
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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 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 Impacts
The 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 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 Materials
CRTs/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 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 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 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 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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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
Scrap for
recycling as
per DQI-003
No
Parts
good
Ye
s
Grade,
count &
batch
Boards for chip
recovery per
DQI-001
Audit, enter into
Navision & pack
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* front and back plastic
* housing
* PCB board
* LCD
* vibrator
* speaker
* screws
* keypad
* antenna
* charger connector
* power button
* sim connector
* microphone
* ringer
Appendix B: IT Recovery Process
Goods In
(white label)
Check In as per
DQI-014/24
R1
No
R2
2
R3
Teardown
**
Fraction
s
Test
Required
Yes
Green Label
No
R1
Part?
Yes
Weigh
Rebuild
No
Yes
Product
Specific
Tests *
Fail
Fixable
No
Saleable
Fail
s
Pass
Yes
QA if req.
Stores
(blue label)
*Defined in DQI-015/17/19/24 if required
**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)
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Disposal
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.
Processing
Pulling DQI-001/3/5/6, Sort
DQI-007, mobile phones
DQI-009/16/18/21, Service
jobs DQI-013
Service Jobs
worked, then
returned to
customer or
disposed of.
Material QA audit if required
Stores
DQI-012/23
Scrap
Green label
R3
Good stock
Blue label
R1
To specialised waste
facility for further
recycling
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On hold/RMA
stock
Red label
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2 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?
When a electrical retailer sells their customer
service returns on the open market, are they selling
WEEE?
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Useful Contacts
SEWPF National Clearing House proposal:
Email: [email protected]
DTI WEEE Directive info:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability/weee/index.htm
Ban Organisation:
http://www.ban.org
Datec Technologies Ltd:
[email protected]
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