Recycling Overview

Environmental responsibility is paramount in our increasingly populated and developed world; Social responsibily, Best Value practice and ever increasing waste legislation insist that both consumers and organisations acknowledge their environmental duties.

WEEE Recycling
Since 1998 Seek-IT Ltd has been developing cost effective collection, assessment and de-manufacturing processes for waste electronic equipment. We depend upon low cost repair, testing and refurbishing techniques and endeavour to ensure that over 70% of the items we collect are diverted from landfill for either resale or reuse.

process Our recycling services are fully compliant with the WEEE Regulations 2006 and are purposely designed to exceed the DEFRA requirements of Best Available Treatment, Recovery & Recycling Techniques (BATRRT). A core feature of this service is an integral assessment process, which promotes optimal reuse and guarantees that downward recycling only take place when appropriate.

WEEE Recycling - Manual Segregation
The small percentage of equipment that cannot be reconditioned or repaired is disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner. Equipment that fails or that is unsuitable for reuse is sent to material recovery process where is demanufactured and then separated into 4 principal categories indicated in the pie chart.

Demanufacturing is primarily a manual process in order to guarantee that segregated waste streams are as pure as possible and are not contaminated with hazardous compounds or other materials which lower both value and re-use potential.

Plastic processing
Brominated and non brominated plastics are separated and all metal content is removed to avoid contamination in later plastic reprocessing. Clean and sorted plastic has no residual value.

Monitor/CRT recovery
The manual removal and careful handling of cathode ray tubes is vital to ensure that glass tubes are not smashed. Tubes are reprocessed in Belgium to remove and isolate hazardous materials such as lead, phosphorous, cadmium, barium and mercury. As a result of high transport, handling and recycling costs, CRT disposal is costly.

Metals Metal is currently sorted into ferrous and non-ferrous and holds a positive value of between £20 - £40 per tonne.

Cardboard & Expanded polyester
The disposing of residue packaging from new equipment has become standard practise during most large scale equipment roll outs despite not being integral to the core WEEE processing.

In addition to rapidly removing all bulky items from the installation site, the Seek-IT solution is completely environmentally friendly and does not contribute to landfill. Cardboard has a neutral value owing to the small quantities involved. Expanded polyester disposal is relatively expensive due to the high volume to weight ratio and limited treatment facilities in the UK.

Recycling Partners
The recyclates and residual from demanufacture is sent to the select organisations for further environmentally friendly treatment and processing. As a result, ‘waste’ from your obsolete ICT equipment does not contribute towards landfill.