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Article: First commercial recycling process for electronics waste.(close up: recycling)
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- Plastics Technology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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A 23-year-old Dutch plastic recycling firm, Plastic Herverwerking Brabant (PHB) BV has become the first supplier in the world of a complete commercial altered-density-media system tailored to separate the plastics in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Since last October, PHB has operated a WEEE recycling system sized for 33 million lb/yr and averages about 4400 lb/hr of reclaimed material from 11,000 lb/hr of waste input. The relatively small proportion of recaptured saleable material pays off because it includes about 10% valuable metals--mostly copper, but also gold. PHB has been recycling WEEE plastics since 2002. It builds commercial recycling machinery ...
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