Sustainability report 2014

Sustainability report

2014 COLLECTIVE

SCHEME ACTIVITIES

NEWS 2014

KEY FIGURES EUROPE - ITALY

SERVICE PERFORMANCE

ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE

INNOVATION

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SECTORS

MODEL 231

ETHICAL CODE

R1 Refrigeration equipment such as cools, air conditioners, freezers, etc.

R2 Large domestic appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines, hoods, ovens, etc.

R3 TVs and monitors (including LCD and plasma TV)

R4 Computers, consumer electronics, small appliances, lighting fixures, etc.

R5 Light sources such as fluorescent light bulbs, low energy, fluorescent, etc.

Waste

batteries

Accumulators

Waste

Electrical

Electronical

Equipment

PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS

Pursuant to the new D e c re e 4 9 / 2 0 1 4 , photovoltaic panels a re c lass i f ied as belonging to the EEE R4 category

Social performance

Raecycle adopted the model 231 in June

24th, 2014, with that the company intends to

definitively affirm and spread a corporate

culture based on the principles of legality,

honesty, fairness and personal integrity,

impartiality and aversion to conflict of

interest in its decisions and control.

Closely related to the model 231 is the Ethical

Code that integrates the model 231 defining a

set of principles and values to which behaviors

in all sensitive activities must observe. The

ethical code identifies the principles and values

that Raecycle recognizes, accepts and shares.

These set of responsibilities, the company

assumes both internally and externally.

2012 2013 2014 COLLECTIVE SCHEME EMPLOYEES 7 13 14 TREATMENT PLANT EMPLOYEES 31 33 23

TOTAL 38 46 37

2012 2013 2014

3 6 7

4 7 7

TOTAL 7 13 14

Employees of the Collective schemes by type of employees

Employees Raecycle

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One of the main ways to redistribute the value generated

is the job offer. Raecycle does it with particular attention

to the gender equality, valuing the dimensions of equality

and diversity.

50%

EMPLOYEES

WOMAN

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COLLECTIVE SCHEME ACTIVITIES 1

50%

EMPLOYEES

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ASSOCIATES N°

HOUSEHOLD WEEE 710

BATTERIES & ACCUMULATORS 260

PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS 9

B2B CUSTOMERS 245

MORE THEN 1.200 CUSTOMERS AND ASSOCIATES

ASSOCIATES AND CUSTOMERS Raecycle has more then 1.200 customers and associates to which it

offers the management of all the typologies of Waste.

The experience and expertise of the partners chosen by Raecycle are

essential to ensure high quality standards of service to its members.

In the year 2014 Raecycle has used 24 partners including 19 treatment plants

located throughout the Italian country.

Compared to 2013 it was carried out an optimization of the supplier base

passing from 35 to 24 direct suppliers, while maintaining an excellent territorial

coverage and improving the service level.

Logistic and treatment partners

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman: Emmanouil Volakakis

Board member: Alexandre Comino

Board member: Roberto Trovato

MANAGEMENT

Emmanouil Volakakis

Alexandre Comino

BOARD OF AUDITORS

Chairman: Alessandro Malerba

Statutory auditor: Maurizio Bacchiega

Statutory auditor: Aldo Massimo Rossi

LOGISTIC

TREATMENT PLANTS

TREATMENT PLANTS WITH LOGISTIC

2

01 02

WEEE LABoratory of EXcellance

Raecycle in 2014 was co-founder of an alliance between

the main collective systems, with the aim of standardizing

the method of verifying the proper treatment process,

providing to run on all systems used an unique audit mode

called WEEE Labex.

During 2014, 24 treatment plants were audited, this

important result brings Italy to be the second country in

Europe after France (25), thanks mainly to the idea and

perseverance of 5 Schemes which have decided to join

forces and raise Italy as the second country in Europe for

WEEE quality management.

E-Commerce The obligation for those who sell EEE products on-line to ensure the withdrawal of the equivalent WEEE to customers who purchase a new product, offering the opportunity to deliver (or pick up) the equipment at their end of life in the collection points made available for free.

All Actors All WEEE treatment plants, even those that withdraws from collection points which are not handled by the collective schemes, or withdraw professional WEEE, must in any case join the CDCRAEE and declare the treated volumes. Such declared volumes will be taken into account towards the achievement of the targets set by the new legislation.

T h e p h o t o v o l t a i c p a n e l s a r e n o w i n c l u d e d i n t h e legislation (cat. 4.9 Annex 2), as from August 2018 will be considered WEEE also all other electronic d e v i c e s c u r r e n t l y excluded.

I n t r o d u c t i o n o f m e a s u r e s t o encourage the reuse of products before the recycling phase. The details of this a c t i v i t y w i l l b e defined by an ad hoc decree.

Collection Targets have been increased, which means getting to manage by 2019 85% of total WEEE generated by the households or 65% of the average weight of EEE put on the market in the three previous years.

Collection target D.LGS 49/2014

PVT

Reuse

The retail distributors with EEE sales areas higher than 400 square meters, in addition to the withdrawal "1 vs 1", are also required to withdrawal "1 vs 0” small WEEE (max25cm) regardless of whether or not a new product has been purchased.

1 vs 0

The collection target set by the Regulation is very important and challenging. With the new Decree, the collection targets are calculated based on a percentage of the EEE put on the market or a percentage of the WEEE generated (by 2019). If all Free Riders, declare their quantities according to the law the quantities that the WEEE system must collect by 2019, could be close to 800.000 tons of WEEE. * In this case Free Riders are EEE producers that not declare the put on market volumes to the collective schemes and do not handle their WEEE by themselves.

1JAN2016 1JAN2019 31DEC2014

4 Kg/inh

45% WEEE collected / EEE put on market 65%

WEEE collected / EEE put on market 85%

WEEE collected / WEEE produced o

With WF-RepTool Raecycle is able to gather info

on the results of treatment and monitoring the

fractions downstream, as well as calculate the

rates of recycling and recovery in accordance

with regulatory standards.

In 2014 Raecycle adopt WF-RepTool, a tool

used to document the results of the treatment

of its recycling partners plants. RepTool was

officially used from the beginning of 2015.

Weee Forum REPorting Tool

REPTOOL

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350.000 tons 232.000 tons

505.000 tons

560.000 tons

810.000 tons

WITHOUT FREE RIDERS WITH FREE RIDERS

SECOND COUNTRY IN EUROPE

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WEEE LABEX COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS

NEWS 2014 3

03

Group Old awards

Fund CP

New awards

Fund CP Increase %

R1 40 €/ton 5 €/ton 50 €/ton 13 €/ton +40%

R2 80 €/ton 5 €/ton 105 €/ton 13 €/ton +39%

R3 40 €/ton 5 €/ton 50 €/ton 13 €/ton +40%

R4 80 €/ton 5 €/ton 105 €/ton 13 €/ton +39%

R5 250 €/ton 5 €/ton 250 €/ton 13 €/ton +3% MINIMUM GRANTED 20 €/ton 0 €/ton 20 €/ton 0 €/ton -

Efficiency awards increased and Collection Point (CP) funds

One of the main changes introduced in the new agreement is the presence of an incremental award that will increase the amount given to the Collection Points in case it succeeds in collect more volumes than it has done on the previous years.

PARTNERS TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE

Exclusive partners in the main European markets

SCOPE OF ACTIVITY

TO SIMPLIFY COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

WEEELOGIC offers one path for European compliance in WEEE, batteries and packaging as well as other environmental related

legislation

SERVICES Compliance

Take back Consulting

SIMPLESINGLE POINT OF CONTACT: CENTRAL PLATFORM FOR ALL EUROPE

COMPLIANTSECURING IMAGE & ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS Approved partners to manage local compliance services Auditors to ensure tratment & recycling standards Regulatory experts for WEEE, batteries & packaging

RELIABLEWORKING WITH A TEAM OF EXPERTS Specialized lawyers to monitor obligations Operational & technical national experts for waste management Consultants for international organisations & project management

CROSS BORDER DEDICATED PROGRAMS OUTSIDE EUROPE

Flexible TAILORED SOLUTION FOR PRODUCERS

WEEE LOGIC

07 08 09 11 OCTOBER2014

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NEW ANCI PROGRAM AGREEMENT Signed on February 15th, 2015, the new framework agreement, is valid for the period 2015-2017

RAECYCLE IS ASSOCIATE OF

One of the most important points of the this agreement is represented by the increased Efficiency Awards, those

are the financial rewards provided by the collective schemes to the collection points to support their activities

and improvements, aiming to ensure a high overall efficiency of the management of WEEE, which are

significantly higher in comparison to the previous years.

In addition, there is an incremental award that will be paid to the collection points for the tons collected more

than the average of the years 2013 and 2014 and the increase of the infrastructures fund that goes from 5 to 13

euro per ton and it is finalized to support the development and adaptation of the collection points. The Fund is

defined for the period 2015-2017 with a guaranteed minimum annual contribution of 1.3 million Euros up to a

maximum of 2.5 million euro per year. The most important news is the fact that 50% of the fund will be devoted

to the creation of new collection points.

The new agreement also defines the resources to enable the development of tools to support the WEEE system:

the “Monitoring Fund”, the "Communication and Service Fund to municipalities" and the " Start-up System Fund

", these were set to improve the information, the awareness and the communication for the municipalities and

the entire WEEE system.

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5

5 €/ton 10 €/ton 5 €/ton 10 €/ton 50 €/ton

INCREMENTAL AWARD

10 12

4

EUROPe EUROPE PUT ON MARKET

EUROPE WEEE COLLECTION

Market input reported 2013 Total country values (Kg/Inh)

Amounts collected reported 2013 Total country values (Kg/Inh)

< 4

4 - 8

8 - 12

> 12

Kg/Inhabitants

< 10

10 - 15

15 - 20

> 20

Kg/Inhabitants

LHA

C&F

IT EXCL SCREENS

SCREENS

OWaB

LAMPS

52%

39% 44%

32% 40% 36%

30% 44% 44%

35% 37% 29%

80%

34%

TARGET 2019

TARGET 2016

33%

21%

8%

21%

16%

1%

LHA C&F IT excl screens

Screens OWaB Lamps

White goods excluding C&F

Cooling and freezing equipment

IT excluding screens

CRT and FPD (monitors and TV)

Mixed WEEE not included in other streams

Lamps

EUROPE COLLECTION

EUROPE ITALY 5

European WEEE collection composition 2013

EUROPE COLLECTION RATE Collection Rate European countries 2013

GROUP 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

R1 24.077 56.962 66.182 68.432 63.903 62.159 64.023

R2 13.541 46.598 59.931 66.132 57.710 56.156 57.947

R3 18.061 57.947 81.033 84.275 76.501 68.880 68.511

R4 9.814 30.882 37.400 40288 38.815 37.620 39.957

R5 204 653 804 963 1.037 1.116 1.274

Total 65.699 193.043 245.351 260.090 237.966 225.931 231.712

Y – (Y-1) 194% 27% 6% -9% -5% 3%

ITALY WEEE COLLECTION Trend in the Italian WEEE system from 2008 to 2014

Raecycle Ecodom Remedia Erp Cobat Ecorit Ridomus Esa Ge R.a.e.e.

Ecolight Ecolamp Ecoped Apiraee Ecoem Consorzio CCR

Ecoelit Rene

Ecodom Raecycle Remedia Erp Ecolight Ecorit Ecoped Cobat Esa Ge R.a.e.e.

Ridomus Ecolamp Ecoelit Consorzio CCR

Apiraee Ecoem Rene

80.000 tons

20.000 tons

60.000 tons

40.000 tons

Raecycle has a collection rate higher than all the other Italian

collective schemes and is allingned with 2016 and 2019 targets

COLLECTIVE SCHEMES COLLECTION RATE

62% 50%

41% 40% 33%

29% 29% 27% 27% 19% 17% 17% 15% 15%

11%

Raecycle Ridomus Remedia Consorzio CCR

Esa Ge R.a.e.e.

Ecodom Erp Cobat Ecorit Apiraee Ecoelit Ecolamp Ecolight Ecoped Ecoem

TARGET 2019

TARGET 2016

ITALy

15.000 tons

45.000 tons

30.000 tons

COLLECTIVE SCHEMES HAZARDOUS WEEE COLLECTION Raecycle is the biggest collective schemes that treat hazardous WEEE in Italy

COLLECTIVE SCHEMES HOUSEHOLD WEEE COLLECTION Raecycle is the second collective schemes for WEEE collection

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Raecycle

Raecycle

R1

R2

R4

R3

R5

405 collection

points

166 collection

points

1.960 collection

points

25 collection

points

3.329 missions

745 missions

16.832 missions

76%

1.247 missions

37 missions

0,2%

MANAGED COLLECTION POINTS

The number of col lecting points assigned by the Italian WEEE Clearing house, depending on the share of put on the market declared by its members.

NUMBER of PICK-UPs

The number of pick up missions to the municipal collection points or grouping places following a withdrawal request or a planned service.

INTERVENTION TIME

the time interval (in days) between the arrival of the pick-up request and the execution of the mission.

SERVICE LEVEL

It indicates the percentage of the pick-ups requests made on time. This tool is used to check the efficiency of the Collective System.

In 2014 Raecycle has an intervention time of:

3,4 days

In 2014 Raecycle has carried out:

22.190 pick-ups

In 2014 Raecycle has a service level of:

99,4%

In 2014 Raecycle has handled:

2.725 Collection points

3,0 days

4dd 1dd

2dd 3dd

5dd

3,1 days

3,4 days

3,4 days

4,8 days

99%

98%

97%

100%

96%

99,1%

4dd 1dd

2dd 3dd

5dd

4dd 1dd

2dd 3dd

5dd

4dd 1dd

2dd 3dd

5dd

4dd 1dd

2dd 3dd

5dd

SERVICE PERFORMANCE 7

169 collection

points

99%

98%

97%

100%

96%

99,3%

99%

98%

97%

100%

96%

99,5%

99%

98%

97%

100%

96%

99,4%

99%

98%

97%

100%

96%

100%

38,1%

COLLECTION 6.384 tons

POM 16.775 tons

749.492 Km

208,5 Km Average distance R/T

154.290 Km


3.705.926 Km


277.688 Km


4.880 Km


6.384 tons

15,2%

0

150

300

450

600

750

900

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Raecycle collection R1 - 2014 – Ton

J F M A M J J A S O N D

1.923 tons

0

40

80

120

160

200

240

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12



31.817 tons

76%

0

600

1.200

1.800

2.400

3.000

3.600

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12



1.747 tons

0

40

80

120

160

200

240

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12



4,2 tons

0,01%

0,0

0,4

0,8

1,2

1,6

2,0

2,4

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12



209%


POM 15.247 tons

8,4%


POM 20.721 tons

3,8%

COLLECTION 4,2 tons

POM 110 tons

13,6%


POM 14.188 tons

COVERED KM

The number of kilometers traveled by vehicles of the Raecycle logistic partners for carrying out the pick-ups.

COLLECTED VOLUMES

It concerns the volumes collected at the CP assigned by the Italian WEEE Clearing house, plus the tons collected from companies, private entities (professional WEEE) and the tons of batteries/accumulators.

COLLECTION RATE

The percentage of WEEE collected compared to the ones placed on the market in a year. In this case they were calculated year-on-year (Y / Y), therefore considering collected and entered in 2014.

In 2014 Raecycle has traveled:

4.892.276 km

In 2014 Raecycle has handled:

41.875,2 tons

In 2014 Raecycle had a collection rate of:

62,5% 8

Recycling and recovery

Methodological note

SOURCES

The proper recycling and treatment of technological waste allows the recovery

of large quantities of materials; the competence and experience of the

treatment partners used by Raecycle have enabled the achievement of

excellent results.

GRUOP Weee treatED

[TONs] Material recovery

ENERGY RECOVERY

recovery disposal

R1 6.383,7 83,4% 9,8% 93,2% 6,8%

R2 1.917,6 91,9% 3,5% 95,4% 4,6%

R3 31.861,0 87,6% 3,0% 90,6% 9,4%

R4 1.760,9 88,8% 6,5% 95,3% 4,7%

R5 3,7 95,7% 1,0% 96,7% 3,3%

TOTAL 41.926,9 87,2% 4,3% 91,5% 8,5%

The data were obtained by using RepTool

Recovery 91,5%

Disposal 8,5%

IPCC - Guidelines for National

Greenhouse Gas Inventories, 2006 IPCC - GWT factors to 100 years

IAI – 2000 ANPA – Atmospheric emissions from

road transport, year 2000 CONFETRA STUDIES CENTRE – Green

house Effect of freight CO2 emissions ISTRA – CO2 emissions factors in the

electr icity industry and of the

emissions decomposition analysis no.

172/2012 PROGNOS – Summary resource

s a v i n g s a n d C O 2 r e d u c t i o n

potentials, 2008

COREVE – Collection and Recycling

of Glass

REPTOOL - suppliers

BALANCE = A - ( B + C + D + E + F )

WITHOUT RECYCLING WITH RECYCLING

Extraction, transport and production

of raw materials

37% CERAMIC TILES

40 MILLION GLASS 15.663 tons

23% PANS

7 MILLION IRON 9.652 tons

19% BOTTLES OF DETERGENT

60 MILLION PLASTIC 7.829 tons

4% KM OF ELECTRICAL CABLES

150.000 COPPER 1.757 tons

1% 30 MILLION ALLUMINIUM 484 tons

7% OTHER 2.943 tons

Transportation from Collection points

To tratment planTs

Primary treatment

Transport from Treatment plants to

Industrial recycling plants

Industrial recycling

Work location RAECYCLE

+ =

+ =

+ =

+ =

+ =

CANS

The remaining 8.5% is shipped to designated waste disposal

ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE 9

Equivalent to:

ENVIROMENTAL CLASSES

CO2 ACTIVITY TONS CO2

Production of raw materials 187.696,4

Production from recycled materials 13.004,3

Transport 3.374,8

Primary treatment 1.043,1

Headquarter 83,3

EMISSION AVOIDED

170.190,8 TON

ACTIVITY GJ

Production of raw materials 1.114.817,4

Production from recycled materials 400.025,0

Transport 15.594,5

Primary treatment 8.512,4

Headquarter 1.055,0

CONSUMPTION AVOIDED

689.630,5 GJ

EURO

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EURO

5

EURO

4

EURO

3

EURO

1

EURO

0

EURO

2

EVERY TON TREATED MEANS A SEVING OF EMISSIONS OF 4,1 TONNES OF CO2

ACTIVITY TONS CO2

Transport 3.374,8 75,0 %

Primary treatment 1.043,1 23,2 %

Headquarter 83,3 1,8 %

RAECYCLE EMISSIONS

4.501,2

75% of operational emissions are attributable to the transport of WEEE

20%

8%

1% 2%

10%

58%

1%

191.564 KWH SAVED EQUAL TO AN ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OF 160.000* CITIZENS

EVERY TON TREATED MEANS SAVING 4.569 KWH EQUAL TO THE AVERAGE

CONSUMPTION OF A FAMILY OF 4 PEOPLE

ACTIVITY GJ

Transport 15.594,5 61,9 %

Primary treatment 8.512,4 33,8 %

Headquarter 1.055,0 4,2 %

RAECYCLE CONSUMPTION

25.161,9

61,9% of operational consumption are attributable to the transport of WEEE

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191.564 MWH Equal to

* Considering the procapital electricity consumption in Italy as 1.185,9 kwh source:ISTAT

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Fp7 program – Research for SMEs, “HydroWEEE Demo” aims to develop industrial-

grade technologies already defined in "HydroWEEE" and to make these recovery

processes universal for various fractions resulting from the treatment of WEEE (for

example, lamps, CRT, LCD, circuit boards, lithium batteries), in order to

demonstrate the stability, financial sustainability and efficiency of the process.

Achieving this goal will enable SMEs to be competitive in the recovery of precious

metals and rare earth elements.

In the first period of the project, two industrial facilities were built: one mobile and

a fixed installation in the production site of Relight which was ended in January

2014; such systems are working and, in particular in the industrial Relight plant they

continuously produce high purity concentrated Rare Earth elements, starting from

the fluorescent lamps powders and cathode ray tube televisions. This product is

used as a secondary raw material for various industrial products (ceramics, metal

alloys, etc.).

This innovative hydrometallurgical process, with low environmental impact and

high energetic efficiency, gives an important contribution to the sustainability of

WEEE treatment, enhancing materials otherwise sent to disposal, it also answers to

the strategy of the European Commission concerning the critical materials

(including rare earths elements), whose efforts focus to minimize the dependence

of European industry from foreign markets and the mining industry, through the

strengthening and renewal of the same recycling processes.

Relight, thanks to the achieved experience with the project HydroWEEE and the

operational management of the pilot and industrial plants, is able to pursue the

path to the final optimization of the hydrometallurgical process, of its

environmental performance and of the product. Relight is also responsible within

the project, to assess the results, verify the technical performance and the

placement of out-put on the market, simultaneously conducting an environmental

impact, economic and risk assessment.

Partners: Kopacek KG ISL (Austria); EcoRecycling (Italy); Greentronics (Romania);

S.E.Traded.o.o. SET (Serbia); Institute Mihajlo Pupin (Serbia); University of

L´Aquila (Italy); University La Sapienza Rome (Italy); University Politecnica delle

Marche (Italy)

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RELIGHT

The project Reclaim aims to develop an extraction process for the recovery of rare

earth and precious elements. In particular, the raw materials objective are divided

into two groups: Gallium and Indium, which are contained mainly in Photovoltaic

panels and SSL; Yttrium and Europium, contained primarily in fluorescent lamps,

CRT, LCD, electronic boards.

The project objectives are to identify technological solutions economically

sustainable, exceeding the difficulties now encountered in this recovery process,

especially coming to a pilot at the industrial level, with particular emphasis on

applications with small-scale, automation and environmental sustainability.

The project provides the study of innovative technologies for the extraction of

target materials, in particular for the processes of: separation and removal,

dissolution and selective recovery of materials, concentration and purification,

demonstrating the technologies through prototypes.

The project therefore provides a dedicated mobile pilot plant for each of the two

groups of materials, where experimental tests for the recovery of valuable

elements will be carried out.

The plant for the recovery of Yttrium and Europium will be placed on the

production site of Relight, since the early months of 2016.

Partners: Nederlandse Organisatievoor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk

Onderzoek TNO (Netherland); CogVis Software and Consulting GmbH (Austria);

Optoelectronica (Romania); Optisort (Sweden); Indumetal Recycling, S.A. (Spain);

Coolrec (Netherland); Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (Spain); Ondeo Industrial Solutions

(Netherland); Francisco Albero, S.A. (Spaina); Österreichische Gesellschaftfür

System- und Automatisierungstechnik SAT (Austria); TechnischeUniversitätWien

(Austria)

RELIGHT

Relight S.r.l. WEEE tratment plant Via lainate, RHO (MI)

one of the major Raecycle partners

Relight S.r.l.

WEEE treatment plant

Via lainate, RHO (MI)

one of the major Raecycle partners

INNOVATION 11

PMR (precious metal recycling) is a plant for the recovery of metals and plastics coming from the treatment of WEEE. With

different recycling techniques (grinding, selection, screening, flotation, pneumatic separation) metals and plastics are

recovered through innovative fully automated treatment operations and re-entered into the market as secondary raw

materials. The first operation is constituted by the step of milling, screening, iron removal and separation of non-ferrous metals

in the main line that constitutes the plant. This stage is fully automated, managed by a PLC and represents an innovative

aspect since, unlike the traditional treatment lines of the Electronic Equipments, all the materials are reduced to metallic and

plastic fragments thus avoiding manual sorting and extraction of intact components.

Subsequent refining phases

In the wet separation (designed for

the material with size 7-12 mm) water

is used to separate the lighter

mater ial (plast ic) f rom heavy

materials (metals).

Material enters at the top of the

boards and is mixed with a constant

f low of water that acts as a

separating agent.

In the dry separation (designed for the

material with size 0-7 mm) the air is

blown and sucked by a ventilation

system that removes the light material

and delivers it into a bag filter.

The heavy material is stirred and

concentrated on shaking tables. This

allows to concentrate the precious

metals and capture impurities.

Plastic floating plant

The input fraction consists of a mix of plastics commonly

used in the electrical and electronic equipment and

some residual metals.

The purpose of the line PRC (Plastic Recycling Center) is

to separate three fractions: light Plastics for recycling,

plastics with flame retardants, metal residues.

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Stena Technoworld S.r.l. WEEE tratment plants Via dell’industria, ANGIARI (VR) Via Santa Maria in Campo, CAVENAGO DI BRIANZA(MI)

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The line PRC exploits the physical properties of materials, in particular different densities of

metals, thermo plastics, lightweight plastics. The density adjustment is done by controlled

metering of salts to create suitable mixtures for the flotation of materials.

The flexibility of the system can allow the use of variable densities with

the aim to isolate specific polymers constituting the initial mix of plastics.

In choosing its partners Raecycle keeps special attention to the attitude of the companies to invest in

innovative projects to improve the quality of treatment and industrial development.

12

The first stage of the treatment process of a TV containing CRT involves a

manual disassembly in which all the reusable/recyclable materials are

separated (plastic, wood, cables, boards, deflection yoke, iron), some of

them will go to further processing; subsequently a cut is done on the CRT

to separate the cone glass (high lead content) from the front glass

(Barium).

The front glass then passes through a suction phase where the fluorescent

powder is captured. Then it is tumbled and grinded in different grain sizes.

After that, it is ready to be re-utilized in other productions processes.

The grinded glass coming from the second phase is introduced

into the main reactor together with a reagent, with the aim of

dissolving the glass molecules containing lead, through a cold

hydro metallurgical process.

The mix leaving the reactor is introduced into an electrolytic cell

that separates lead from silicates; electrolytic Lead pure at 99.9%

is pressed and ready to be sold, while Silicates are separated

between soluble and insoluble through the use of a filter press,

turning the hazardous waste in Secondary Raw Materials.

3° STEP OF TREATMENT LEAD EXTRACTION

1° STEP OF TREATMENT MANUAL REMOVAL

INNOVATION DRIVEN BY THE NEED TO SOLVE THE MAIN

PROBLEM IN THE CRT TREATMENT: TO ACHIEVE THE 80%

RECOVERY RATE IMPOSED BY DECREE 49/2014 AND

TO HAVE A SUSTAINABLE ENVIROMENTAL SOLUTION

INNOVATION 13

Partners: Costech S.r.l., Politecnico of Milan and University of Catania

The Raecycle plant has found an innovative solution to solve the problem of the

presence of lead in the glass coming from cathode ray tubes (CRT). Currently,

the disposal of CRT screens represents a big problem for the industry both in

terms of costs, for disposal, and environmental terms. The CRT TVs (which is still

today the main flow of TVs) , in fact contain two types of glasses, having

different characteristics, and follows distinguished treatment processes: the glass

panel (front side), rich in Barium and Strontium, once cleaned by the "phosphor",

is grinded and finds application as a second raw material in ceramics and in the

brick industry; the lead glass (glass cone – back side), is usually sent to landfills

as hazardous waste, with both high economic and environmental costs.

The cone glass is in fact composed of glass with a high content of lead oxides,

covered with a coating (paint based on metal oxides and graphite), which can

be eliminated through appropriate treatment procedures: in this field the

process develop by Raecycle assumes a strategic and innovative value.

The plant of Syracuse in fact, through a cold hydro-metallurgical process is able

to separate the glass from the lead and extract metallic lead, insoluble sodium

silicates and soluble sodium silicates; the treatment process is also

environmentally sustainable and optimizes the recovery of this particular

category of WEEE, obtaining high value raw materials.

WOOD CABLE bOARDS DEFECTION YOKE IRON

IRON CONE GLASS

PANEL GLASS

CUT

GLASS POWDER IRON COATING

TUMBLING

GLASS POWDER

H2o

LEAD INSOLUBLE SILICATE

SOLUBLE SILICATE

PHOTOSPHoR SCREEN

PLASTIC ALMOST 20% IN

WEIGHT OF LEAD BARIUM GLASS

The second phase begins with

the tumbling of the cone glass

to remove the coating, it is

subsequent ly g r inded to

reduce the sizes of the glass

under one millimeter and sent

to the third stage.

ELECTROLYTIC CELL FILTER PRESS

REAGENT

ELECTRON GUN

MATERIALS COMING FROM PRE-TREATMENT PHASE TO START SUBSEQUENT PROCESSING (RECYCLING / DISPOSAL)

Tumbling

&

Grinding

2° STEP OF TREATMENT LEAD GLASS RECOVERY

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PRESENTATION BY:

MATTEO FAGANELLI

RAECYCLE

Via Aldo Moro 10, Brescia (BS) Tel. 02.47950790

[email protected] - www.raecycle.it

© Copyright 2014 RAEcycle S.C.p.A.

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