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Compliant waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling
Sims Recycling Solutions has capacity in Europe to process over 300,000 tonnes of
e-waste each year, from computers and phones to lawn mowers and medical equipment. Due to our investment in highly mechanised plant and facilities we are able to recover high quantities of recyclables from WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) such as ferrous metals, non ferrous metals, plastics and glass. Sims Recycling Solutions offers cost effective, WEEE Directive compliant and environmentally friendly recycling services to compliance scheme operators, OEMs, electronics disbributors, businesses and organisations in recycling operations spanning five continents.
Under the European WEEE Directive, manufacturers and compliance scheme operators are obligated to recycle any electrical or electronic equipment that cannot be refurbished or re-used. With e-waste the fastest growing waste stream in Europe, this prevents hazardous material from entering landfill whilst encouraging recycling. Business and organisation end users of electronic equipment also have a duty of care to dispose of their e-waste in accordance with hazardous waste regulations.
Sims Recycling Solutions delivers value to your business through industry leading processes that provide secure hardware destruction to protect your data, the maximisation of materials recovered for recycling, legislative compliance and environmentally friendly processes.
View our range of WEEE recycling services including:
- Types of e-waste recovered - based on WEEE Directive categories
- Electrical equipment recycling - Sims' core WEEE recycling services
- OEM and electronics distributor returns services - advanced systems for handling complex customer and channel electronics equipment returns
- Eco days and Eco bins – workplace recycling initiatives to help your organisation demonstrate tangible CSR
- Transport and logistics - a range of secure national logistics services
- European and global services - information on electronics recycling operations worldwide, for multinational organisations
The materials recovery process used by Sims Recycling Solutions ensures the complete destruction of any hardware and data.
Fridges and air conditioning units may contain ozone depleting substances whilst many items of e-waste contain harmful substances such as cadmium and lead.
As a result of Sims Recycling Solutions' major investment programmes, we can help you to dispose of difficult to recover and hazardous material-containing e-waste cost effectively, including:
- Fridge and air conditioning unit recycling – Sims Recycling Solutions operates the world’s largest fridge recycling centre in Newport, South Wales
- Processing of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) from computer monitors and televisions
- Toner cartridge recycling from computer printers and photocopiers
If you are disposing of IT or telecommunications equipment, visit our IT Asset Recovery pages for a range of specialist computer refurbishment, re-use, re-marketing, returns and recycling services.
Your assets may generate more value for your organisation than they would if recovered for materials recycling.
Services include data centre decommissioning, industry leading data wiping and advanced real time online tracking of every IT asset.
By creating a positive and secure disposal strategy which considers re-use, refurbishment and recycling, extra value can be generated from redundant assets.
Email us or call 0845 050 8470 today to enquire about WEEE recycling services.