Weee Compliance Company Recycle 22k Tonnes of I.T. Equipment

Recycling Collection

Hants-based Midex, specialist in the waste disposal and recycling of end of life I.T. and Weee (waste electrical and electronic) equipment, has been appointed by publicly listed finance company Paragon for recycling collection of the organisation’s redundant IT equipment.

The arrangement between the two companies, which comes as the Government increases pressure on organisations to divert end of life WEEE from landfill, has seen Midex collect and transport more than 22,000 kilos of redundant IT equipment from Paragon’s head office in Solihull, West Midlands to Midex’s Hants-based reprocessing facility.

Computer Recycling Process

On arrival in Aldershot, Paragon material is de-bulked and broken down into components parts. The plastic is set aside for collection by a specialist recycler whilst the remaining waste is shredded to less than 25mm, using two separate shredding machines. Ferrous material, iron and steel is extracted via an over-band magnet and stored in one tonne bags until sold.

Finally, after passing through an Eddy Current Separator for removing aluminium, leftover parts such as wires, circuit boards and small quantities of precious metals are stored in one tonne bags ready for smelting.

Midex I.T. Recycling and the Weee Directive

Established in 1993 initially as an engineering support company to the UK computer industry and today licensed by the Department of Environment, Midex offers a comprehensive range of affordable I.T. recycling solutions to help organisations of all sizes meet the Weee regulations in the most environmentally-friendly and simplest way possible to ensure that their electronic waste is disposed of in compliance with the Weee directive.