electronic scrap recycling Horne Québec
Hmm! Theis Reuters article discusses the expansion of the Xstrata plc smelter which
processes scrap from discarded electronic equipment to recover copper and precious metals that are then refined and used in new products.
There is growing demand for electronic scrap smelting capacity as the number of devices grows and electronic waste becomes an increasing environmental concern, the company said.
Xstrata Copper said it is the world’s No. 4 copper producer and its recycling business is the world’s biggest consumer of copper and precious metal-bearing electronic scrap.
It is a chemically intensive process. Recycling should not be the only part of the production cycle, in fact, designing products that are durable physically, technologically, aesthetically and emotionally overtime is the first part. Making them extensible would also be an asset. But hey! I wonder what the folks in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec think of the smelters plans to double its electronic scrap recycling capacity to 100,000 tonnes a year by January 2010. I’d check the water! Also, it is amazing how a chemically intensive waste recycling process markets itself with very cutsey love the earth type of cartoonish charactered reports.
Cute is starting to make me squeamish!
