Hello! I am from Hypertherm, a manufacturer of metal cutting equipment (plasma, waterjet, accessories, software). Our goal is to ensure that by 2020, none of our equipment ends its life in a landfill, and is instead 100% recycled. A lofty goal given that we don’t have much control over our end users, especially 5-30 years after they buy our equipment! My research has shown that most of our end users send our dead equipment to a local scrap yard where ever they are in North America. I believe that this is a great way for our ferrous and non-ferrous components (which make up the vast majority, by weight, of our systems) to be recycled. However, this may not be the best place to ensure that plastic breakage and printed circuit boards are properly recovered. Some of our systems could have 10 pc boards of good value in them, along with hard drives, CPUs, RAM, processors, etc.
While this is my primary question right now, I am looking to join the forum to learn more about the scrap industry in general, and to reach more people than cold-phone calls!
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