How can businesses make device recycling a regular process, reduce the risk of GDPR non-compliance, and minimise damage to the environment through waste going to landfill?
SCC’s fixed destruction site for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is at the core of our recycling and disposal operation, enabling us to efficiently destroy and recover optimum raw material fractions. That way, customers can get their devices destroyed safely, and gain the opportunity to recover a significant proportion of them for recycling.
We use the latest shredding and separation technology to recycle and reuse parts and materials from hazardous waste (i.e. monitors and batteries), components, metals and packaging.
Our site is CPNI approved for treatment of all Government security classifications, and is regularly audited to maintain numerous accreditations, including ISO 14001:2015 for environmental management.
Our recycling process comprises five key stages:
Depollution: we remove hazardous materials and components from equipment so it can be treated separately, in line with guidance from the WEEE Directive and the Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques (BATRRT)
Initial shredding: our powerful four-shaft rotary shredder is big enough to process almost any type of IT equipment, and can process up to 20 tonnes of WEEE per day. It reduces them down to 40mm fragments, liberating metals, metal-bearing materials and plastics in the process
Separation: mixed fragments then pass through an automated separation process, where band and drum magnets extract and collect ferrous metals fragments. Those that remain after this then pass through an eddy current separator, splitting plastic fragments from those that are non-ferrous metal
Granulation: in some cases, such as those required by the CPNI standard to declassify ‘Top Secret’ information for certain media, we can granulate particles further and reduce them to no more than 6mm in size
Reprocessing: the fragments generated by the process are then passed to approved recyclers for further treatment, so that the raw materials can be recovered efficiently and transitioned back into the manufacturing industry
