Hi, i am from Morden a small town in Manitoba, Canada and do sales for an
e-waste processing company. I am new to the
scrap metal/
ewaste market and hope to learn and contribute in this forum community.
We specialize in the recycling and processing of End of Life electronic waste (personal computers, laptops, cell phones, monitors, etc.), non-ferrous scrap, and other items such as batteries, plastic, etc.
When dealing with electronic waste and other non-ferrous scrap, most of the time they are composite materials. These are difficult to separate and many times the material is either manually separated using cheap labour in a developing country, or if the metals content is high enough to justify the cost, it is sent directly to a smelter. In both cases this will lead to incomplete recovery of the materials present along with a huge environmental impact generated in the process.
We go a different route. We use a finely crafted combination of milling processes along with material separation using physical properties of the materials in the composite. The milling of the material delaminates the composite (e.g. frees up the pieces of copper and aluminum present in a radiator) and makes subsequent separation of the material by density possible (in this case yielding clean copper and aluminum).
I hope this forum will help me to extend my know-how and as I learn I will share it as well.
Cheers...!
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