How does recycling help the environment

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HOW DOES RECYCLING HELP THE Company Meeting Title ENVIRONMENT Presenter


Ewaste becomes a health hazard when we dispose of it improperly and let it rot in landfills. Ewaste can be thrown away, recycled, reused or sold as methods of disposal. This guide covers how ewaste is recycled as an introduction.


How is e-waste recycled? The Process

E-waste recycler’s collection for the day are sorted by hand

Batteries and copper will be extracted for quality control

Products are then shredded into pieces

Data destruction, if you are recycling a hard drive, will occur here.

The small debris is shaken before a secondary size reduction

Copper, brass and aluminum are separated from the nonmetallic products.

Water is utilized to keep plastic and glass separate.


How is e-waste recycled | Cathode Ray Tube Monitors and Televisions Aluminum Recycled first by removing the monitor body from the cathode ray tube

The tubes and screens are broken down into small pieces. The shell is recycled along with regular ewaste.

Any glass dust that is a by product of this process is disposed of responsibly in an ecofriendly way.

E-waste is recycled through metal removal.

The broken pieces of glass are passed under magnets, where steel and iron are extracted from the glass.

and copper are removed. All of these materials are then collected and reused as raw.

Recycling Cathode Ray Tubes which are most commonly discovered in old style televisions and computer monitors will prove to be more complicated than recycling most of the electronic waste.

Then the left over glass is cleaned of dust, oxides and phosphors, leaving behind only clean glass to be sorted.


How Did We Do? The last stage of CRT recycling sorts different types of glass, leaded and unleaded.  Brief overview of performance against each objective.

Both will be used to make new screens, which is known as closed loop recycling.


CONTACT US

All Green Recycling http://www.allgreenrecycling.com

ADDRESS 15561 Del Amo Ave. Tustin, CA 92780

PHONE (714) 782-1485

EMAIL info@allgreenrecycling.com


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