Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn One of the greatest UK sitcoms of the 1970s Fawlty Towers with John Cleese as the hotel manager Basil Fawlty. The opening part of the episodes had anagrams of the hotel sign “Fawlty Towers”. What has Basil Fawlty the incredibly rude hotel manager got to do with …
The list of corporate juggernauts that no longer exist or are a shell of their former selves can fill a business textbook. At one point BlackBerry had 20% of the global mobile phone market and today it has very little. Kodak practically invented the camera and photography up until the early 2000’s when digital took over. …
In certain WEEE markets (e-scrap to our USA and Canadian customers) such as the United Kingdom POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) are a hot topic in the industry. The UK authorities in 2019 completed their own analysis of the material containing POPs in plastics, printed circuit boards and cables (before proceeding to look at POPs in …
Background The recycling of Flat Panel Displays (FPD) poses a problem for electronic equipment recyclers as they have mercury containing CCFLs and dangerous elements and substances (i.e. , Mercury, Liquid Crystal & Cadmium). Mercury in FPDs Research conducted on behalf of the EU found that a typical 32” FPD TV contains 45mg of mercury. A …
What if…Managing WEEE within borders was more than just an ideology… Covid-19 has changed the world. Borders and its citizens are in lockdown and even while an easing of restrictions begins, there is no timeline for a return to the free international travelling to which we are all accustomed. The shift from sending problem-materials and difficult …
As with all businesses e-scrap recyclers have been severely affected with the pandemic of COVID-19 with some markets stating up to an 80% drop on in bound volumes of material for processing, others have closed entirely for an unknown period.With the financial crisis of 2008 the recycling market proved to be resilient despite raw material …
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After 17 years in WEEE Recycling I have seen a lot of change in the way electrical and electronic waste is managed. Do you remember when the skip trucks proudly proclaimed, ‘Waste Removal’ and Waste Disposal’? That was re-marketed into the catch-all ‘Waste Recycling’ and now we have dropped the word ‘waste’ and are in …
Black Friday 2019 was the heat of tech sales. Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) Pre-Black Friday Week Survey was carried out in the US where incredible percentages of the US population planning on buying technology during the sales. Out of 49% of the US population that planned on shopping during Black Friday, 82% of them planned …
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A flat panel display is a television, monitor or other display appliance that uses a thin panel design instead of a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) design [1]. There are many different types of flat panel displays. Common flat panel displays include: Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) are an important piece of flat panel technology as …
Mercury is one of the most toxic metals to us. Even though we have been mining and using mercury for hundreds of years, it creates a significant risk to the global environment and human health. Mercury present in water bodies; lakes and rivers are considered the biggest risk, as the toxic form; methylmercury, is consumed …
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