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Certain components of old electrical and electronic devices can be used again if they are properly dismantled and separated. These manual activities are performed by a non-profit organisation, which employs and cares for unemployed and socially disadvantaged young people. They are doing a meaningful job that is important for environmental policy thanks to our social commitment.
Our focus is on the acquisition and use of electrical and electronic scrap from municipal collections; we are already following the provisions of the Ordinance on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EAG-VO).
The electrical and electronic scrap we receive is brought to the dismantling plant. This includes ranges, washing machines, televisions, telephones, computers and individual electrical components.
In the next stage, the devices are broken up and the components are graded with particular focus on removing harmful substances.
We recycle usable steel and non-ferrous metal components ourselves. We deliver other substances, e.g. plastics or paper, to approved recycling plants.
This ensures that all usable parts flow back into the resource cycle as secondary raw materials. In this way, the components that include harmful substances, such as batteries, chips or parts containing PCB, are disposed of professionally.
For large household appliances, the so-called white goods, the process is slightly different: they are not broken down after the removal of harmful substances, but are conveyed whole into the further processing stages in dry-mechanical separating plants.
Naturally, we also implement all provisions of the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act (KrWG) in the electronic scrap sector.
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