Recycle Electronics: Preventing waste to landfills

Equipment that is unable to be reused is recycled through our AS/NZS 5377 accredited community e-waste recycling partners. This industry standard to recycle electronics sets out principles and minimum requirements for the safe and environmentally sound collection, storage, transport and treatment of end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment in order to maximise re-use and material recovery, reduce or eliminate the amount of waste from this equipment.

How your equipment is processed

• All equipment is dismantled to Circuit Board and Component level
• Components are sorted for specialized downstream recycling
• Circuit Boards are shredded and smelted to recover their precious metals – primarily gold, silver and copper.
• Metals are sent to a metal furnace for reclamation
• Plastics are shredded and recycled
• Glass is then crushed and melted, then moulded into new products
• Toners and batteries are sent to specialised recyclers
• Downstream recyclers have environmental pollutant controls for waste dust, water, and fumes including dust collectors, waste water treatment plants, and fume scrubbers.

Recycle Electronics: The Reuse and Recycling Process

Commodity Purchasing

Buyequip purchase sorted eWaste commodities, including:

• Motherboards
• CPUs
• RAM
• Heat sinks
• Hard drives
• Optical drives
• Copper yokes
• Non-ferrous metals (heatsinks)