Introduction
The aim of this project is to develop environmental and economical efficient systems as well as technologies for an optimal recycling and particularly re-use of mobile phones.
The current recycling technologies of electronic and electrical equipment are mostly split in material recycling and manual disassembly – nearly 100% of mobile phones are sent to material recycling, incineration and landfill.
In order to prevent deposing without any treatment or incineration, the only possible solution is to develop an intelligent and highly flexible disassembly system in order to reduce the costs of handling old mobile phones and to guarantee an environmental friendly reuse and recycling.
Furthermore, this project faces also the logistics and collection of mobile telecommunication equipment in order to achieve the highest possible collection rates of mobile phones.
Objectives
The main technical objectives of the work are:
By all these measures decrease the amount going to landfill or incineration, as well as decrease the threats to the environment and mankind of today’s state-of-the-art technology.
Project Coordinator
MTR Mobile Telecommunication Recycling GmbH (AT)
Partners
Active Recycling (UK), TU Wien (AT), SAT (AT).
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