SCC, which operates throughout Europe, has updated its recycling “Neopark” in the Birmingham International area with state-of-the-art shredding and separation technology.
 SCC is applying to become an approved authorised treatment facility for WEEE |
The move comes as the firm expects to recycle at least double the 250,000 items it processed in 2006 this year, after the Waste Electrical and Electronic Directive comes fully into effect.
The Directive makes manufacturers and importers of electronics responsible for paying for their collection and recycling.
Jon Sansom, service delivery director at SCC, said: “While delivering a significant compliance burden, the WEEE Directive also provides companies with the opportunity to optimise the way they deal with redundant IT and electronic equipment. Our company has a long and viable track record in shaping future-proof, green IT strategies.”
ATF
At the 50,000 square foot Neopark site, which is applying to be an approved authorised treatment facility (ATF), SCC customers can either have their old kits refurbished or recycled.
If the computers are recycled, they are either sent to the new 50 metre-long shredder, which turns the machines into pellets and keeps old computer data secure, or they are dismantles into separate materials for reprocessing.
Mr Sansom said: “With the WEEE Directive going live we have extended what we have always done. We help European companies and government organisations source, integrate and manage their IT all the way through to disposing of it and we help to deliver more for less.”
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