A project funded by the European Union REWIN activities and outputs Final Conference, May 13 th 2015 Dr. Stefan Salhofer

Introduction Primary resources Large generators production waste Secondary materials Informal collection formal collection Electronics production industry Recycling facilities WEEE Households 2

Linking supply and demand of secondary raw materials in electronic production and recycling (chain approach). The development of an adequate recycling infrastructure for WEEE as post-consumer waste and secondary raw materials from electronic producing industry. The development of a knowledge structure on Design for Recycling between the recyclers and the electronic producing industry Targets 3

BOKU University Vienna (consortium leader) … university (A) BUCEA - University of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Beijing … university (CN) RWS – Rijkswaterstaat … state agency (NL) NSWMC (MEP) - National Solid Waste Management Centre of China … state agency (NL) CEEA - China Electronics Enterprises Association … producer association (NL) JZEPB - Jingzhou Environmental Protection Bureau … state agency (NL) Consortium 4

Associated partners Ministry of Environmental Protection (CN) National Waste Management Association (CN) National Environmental Industrial Association (CN) Local waste management authorities and local electronics enterprises associations from the target provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hubei. Consortium 5

Tasks (1) researchtrainingimplementation WASTE TRACKING SYSTEM Waste tracking systems in EU member states Waste list Waste tracking system in CN (e-WTS) Train-the-trainer on e-WTS e-WTS online Regional training courses on e-WTS Recyclers in e-WTS 6

Based on an analysis of waste tracking systems in Europe a system (e-WTS) was developed Through a web portal recyclers provide information on input and output material streams for monitoring Tested and implemented Training for recyclers and local authorities Training toolkits on e-WTS, Guidelines e-WTS 7

Training programs

researchtrainingimplementation CLOSING MATERIAL CYCLES Case studies MFA at electronics producers and recyclers MFA guideline Training on MFASMEP Action plans Best practice DfRTraining on DfR Tasks (2) 9

Material Flow Analysis is a systematic assessment of the flows and stocks of materials (goods and substances) within a system defined in space and time. It connects the sources, the pathways and the intermediate and final sinks of a material. If substances are considered we can also call it Substance Flow Analysis. Source: TU Vienna, stan2web.net What is MFA? 10

11 Material Flow Analysis (MFA) approach

12 Results: 10 MFA case studies, MFA guideline MFA case study

SMEP 13

researchtrainingimplementation CLOSING MATERIAL CYCLES Case studies MFA at electronics producers and recyclers MFA guideline Training on MFASMEP Action plans Best practice DfR Training on DfR Tasks (2) 14

Design for Recycling 15

researchtrainingimplementation WEEE collection Analysis of existing (formal and informal) collection schemes in PRC Identify best practice (in EU) - Technical standards for WEEE collection in CN WEEE recycling State-of-the art in WEEE recycling in EU To develop adopted recycling standards in PRC - Technical standards for WEEE recycling in CN Policy dialogue and dissemination - -Stakeholder dialogue Policy framework Tasks (3) 16

Existing collection schemes for WEEE in China Collection from large generators (public institutions) is regulated by the National Regulation on State-Owned Assets Management Collection from other sources (households, business) today is dominated by the informal sector WEEE collection 17

Formal collection – Initiated as pilots (through retailers and collection companies, OfN, ) – Collection service by recyclers (individual cases) – Internet applications to support collection – Specific case: collection scheme for mobile phones (market driven, for remanufacturing, resale) WEEE collection 18

WEEE collection 19/03/

WEEE collection – case studies at enterprise level 20 Recycler No

Financial aspects - Europe 21 Collection costs are only a part of the overall costs: -Collection and logistics -Treatment -Office, communication, overhead

researchtrainingimplementation WEEE collection Analysis of existing (formal and informal) collection schemes in PRC Identify best practice (in EU) - Technical standards for WEEE collection in CN WEEE recycling State-of-the art in WEEE recycling in EU To develop adopted recycling standards in PRC - Technical standards for WEEE recycling in CN Policy dialogue and dissemination - -Stakeholder dialogue Policy framework Tasks (3) 22

Recycling standards 23

Large appliances, e.g. washing machines In Europe removal of hazardous component by dismantling (capacitor, Hg component) mechanical processing by shredder & separation technologies In China Manual dismantling Recycling standards 24

Recycling standards 25 Cooling & freezing, e.g. refrigerators, AC In Europe dedicated installations to remove CFCs from the cooling circle Removal from insulation (encapsulated cutting mill, underpressure), followed by mechanical processing In China Same technology

Recycling standards 26 Small WEEE, e.g. PCs In Europe dismantling or mechanical break-up and sorting for hazardous components and valuable materials mechanical processing Specific processing of PCB (!) In China Manual dismantling, only partly processing of PCBs

Recycling standards 27 Screens, ie. CRT In Europe dismantling specific treatment to separate glass Mechanical processing In China Manual dismantling, glass separation, partly further processing (plastics, PCBs)

28 State of the art in WEEE recycling

e-WTS as a monitoring tool established and in use Secondary Materials Exchange Platform (SMEP) to link supply and demand of secondary raw materials developed Analysis of collection systems for WEEE: WEEE from large generators regulated, WEEE from households mainly collected through informal sector Recycling: considerable amounts recycled in the designated recycling facilities, 1 st level treatment similar to European Training toolkit and Best practice examples for the use of secondary materials and Design for Recycling developed 29 Results

Thank you for your attention! Contact: Dr. Stefan Salhofer BOKU University Vienna 30