German fridge recyclers SEG Umwelt-Service GmbH has developed mobile technology for treating end-of-life fridges. SEG has over fourteen years experience in recycling waste fridges and freezers throughout Europe and the mobile plant will allow waste fridges in the UK to be recycled locally.
SEG has contracts with three British waste management companies – Light Brothers of East Sussex, Evans Logistics of Wales and International Waste Management Group (IWMG) of
Largs in Ayrshire.
Light Brothers is already operating an SEG Step I (pre-treatment) facility on its Lewes site, where waste fridges and freezers are currently being stored. The pre-treatment operation involves extracting the CFC-oil mix under suction from the appliance’s cooling circuit. Capacitors or mercury switches are also removed, leaving a fridge carcass ready for Step II processing by the mobile plant. In Step II, the appliance carcass is shredded, the component materials are separated from one another and the CFC blowing agent in the insulating foam is recovered.
The SEG mobile fridge plant will then visit an Evans Logistics' fridge storage site near Northampton. The fridges are prepared for Step II processing using a Evans Logistics' unit that extracts the liquid refrigerant from the cooling circuit. The mobile plant will then move to Tredegar in Wales where Evans Logisitics operates a second storage depot. After this, the mobile facility will travel to Scotland for use by IWMG and it will then return to Lewes to deal with the fridges there.
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