Assessment of WEEE Dismantling business opportunities: Formal sector

Assessment of WEEE Dismantling business opportunities: Formal sector

This report is an output of the framework agreement of Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) project being implemented by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Sciences (EMPA) as mandated by the State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) of Switzerland. The aim of the task is to map (the formal sector) and the licensed & sound recycling companies for end processing in Egypt for each separate fraction, and delineate as appropriate the best possible local beneficiation. For fractions with no solution in Egypt, map and propose end-processing facilities to be used outside of Egypt – as receivers of material from the new formal SMEs.

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The detailed scope of work entails the following:

  • Identifying fractions of IT equipment (Desktop, laptops, mobile phones, landline phones, printers, etc…)
  • Identifying the licensed & sound recycling companies for end-processing in Egypt for each separate fraction
  • Delineating as appropriate the best possible local fraction purchaser and the average expected prices
  • Identifying the fractions with no recycling solution in Egypt
  • Identifying and proposing end-processing facilities to be used outside of Egypt as receivers of material

The report incorporates the following sections:

  • An introductory section which is mainly the introduction and general background (the current section)
  • Methodology and approach adopted to perform the work:
  • Core section of the study, which includes the survey results (updated in 2017) to identify
    the WEEE fractions, the licensed & sound recycling companies for end-processing in Egypt
    for each separate fraction and the best possible local fraction purchaser and the average
    expected prices
  • The fractions with no recycling solution in Egypt shall be identified, the case shall be traced
    and detailed
  • End-processing facilities to be used outside of Egypt as receivers of material shall be also
    identified
Authors

Dr. Fathya Soliman

Year

2017

Program

Recycling Initiatives