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WEEE Treatment

Our treatment services focus on WEEE that requires the safe removal of whole Annex II items or that has other specialist requirements such as security or data implications.

treatment Although on the whole we offer specialist demanufacture aimed at Communications, Medical and Control & Monitoring equipment, we also treat a wide range of other items.

Annex II items are typically found in the following WEEE categories

  • 3. IT and telecommunications equipment
  • 6. Electrical and electronic tools
  • 8. Medical devices (with the exception of all implanted and infected products)
  • 9. Monitoring and control instruments

We can provide treatment for most other categories however in some cases mechanised processing may prove more cost effective

  • 1. Large household
  • 2. Small household appliances
  • 4. Consumer equipment
  • 7. Toys, leisure and sports equipment
  • 10. Automatic dispensers

hazard Annex II Treatment Annex II to the WEEE Directive requires that, as a minimum, the following are removed from any separately collected WEEE:

DEFRA Guidance on Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT) and treatment of WEEE, issued November 2006 divides Annex II material into 2 groups

Items safely removed whole i.e. manual depollution by physical demanufacture

  1. Capacitors containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
  2. Mercury containing components
  3. Toner cartridges
  4. Asbestos
  5. Components containing refractory ceramic fibres
  6. Components containing radioactive substances
  7. Gas discharge lamps
  8. Cathode ray tubes
  9. Electrolyte capacitors containing substances of concern
  10. Batteries that can be removed prior to treatment and internal hazardous batteries
Other items may be removed as material i.e. by compliant mechanised shredding
  1. Plastic containing brominated flame retardants
  2. CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs and HCs
  3. External electric cables
  4. Circuit boards
  5. Liquid Crystal Displays
  6. Batteries other than those mentioned in the list in paragraph 42
  7. The fluorescent coating in cathode ray tubes.

recycle Our treatment system is designed to recover far in excess of regulation 26 targets across all categories. Aside from safe Annex II removal our processes separate all recyclates into sorted streams such as plastic, various metals (ferrous and non-ferrous) and circuit boards for onward smelting.