The company has set up a specialist recycling workshop for WEEE at its Knowl Hill landfill site in Berkshire to look at the best ways of separating and recovering electronic components from waste.
Director Neil Grundon revealed the company had already found partners to take on waste metals, plastics and circuit boards recovered from the trial, although he said they could not be named yet.
With regards to hazardous wastes such as computer screens, which contain lead, he said Grundon was looking for suitable partners in Europe. “We are looking into a few options to find out which is the most economic,” he said.
The company has started the trial with a focus on computers. It plans to move on to other household electrical goods, such as power drills, hair dryers and lawnmowers, in September.
The WEEE materials have been collected from Grundon's 16,000 commercial customers in the Thames Valley. Additional waste came from a month-long
WEEE collection from Oxfordshire county council's CA sites, which ends this week.
Mr Grundon said the company planned to start a large-scale permanent WEEE recycling service within the next year.
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