Waste streams containing precious and special metals
The results of the "ILESA – Smart steering of waste streams containing precious and minor metals: pooling temporary storage, recovery rate" project have been published in the text series of the German Environment Agency.
bifa worked on the project on behalf of the German Environment Agency (UBA), together with the law firm “avocado Rechtsanwälte” and Prof Krupp of the HSAOps research group at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences.
In the project, magnetic materials, vehicle electronics and other waste streams were examined with the objective of increasing recovery of precious and special metals. The following aspects were analysed:
- Collection logistics concepts and flows of information for consolidating and treating waste
- Legal aspects of the removal, recovery and labelling obligations and the duty to provide dismantling instructions for waste streams containing precious and special metals
- Recovery processes, consolidation and information concepts for a large number of waste streams
- Legal, technical and economic analysis of the possibilities of interim storage until recycling technology is available
- Environmentally optimal or realistically achievable recovery yields of precious and special metals from selected waste streams
- Assessment of possible measures for increasing the recycling of precious and special metals
The UBA texts on the project (in German and English) are available free of charge from:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/ilesa-edel-sondermetallhaltige-abfallstroeme
You want more information?
You are welcome to contact me:
Dr. Siegfried Kreibe
skreibe@bifa.de