Sayona's Recycling Solutions offers businesses a comprehensive suite
of services to help unlock the value in their redundant, end of life
or customer returned electrical and electronic business assets.
Main categories of e-scrap processed for re-use, component
or commodity recovery:
Waste electrical and electronic equipment can be divided into ten
major categories:
- Large domestic appliances including refrigerators,
washing machines, electric cookers, microwave ovens, dish washing
machines, electric fans, electric radiators
- Small domestic appliances including toasters,
irons, vacuum cleaners and hairdryers
- IT and telecommunications equipment including
computers, servers, photocopiers, phones, printers, visual display
units (VDUs), facsimile machines
- Consumer equipment including televisions,
DVD players, hi-fi equipment, electric guitars, amplifiers, radios,
video cameras
- Lighting equipment including fluorescent
lamps, high intensity discharge lamps, low intensity sodium lamps
- Electrical and electronic tools including
drills, electric saws, sewing machines, lawnmowers, sanders, nail
guns
- Toys, leisure and sports equipment including
video game consoles, electronic fitness equipment electric trains
and car racing systems, coin slot machines
- Medical devices including analysers, imaging
and radio therapy equipment.
- Monitoring control instruments including
smoke detectors and thermostats
- Automatic dispensers including cold drinks
and snacks dispensers
We have invested in specialist equipment to recover hazardous
substances: Within these categories, hazardous substances can exist and legislation prescribing what is hazardous does vary by country but typical examples include:
- Ozone Depleting Substances such as CFCs or HCFCs found in refrigerators
or insulating panels
- Lead found in Cathode Ray Tubes and certain batteries
- Phosphors
found in Cathode Ray Tubes and Fluorescent Lamps
- Cadmium found in
Nickel Cadmium (NiCad) Batteries
- Certain flame retardants found in
plastics
- Radioactive materials found in anything from medical equipment
to smoke detectors
