Title: What is e-waste management? - Quora
Headings: What is e-waste management?
What is e-waste management?
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Electronics manufacturers and e-waste recycling companies differ in their efforts to refurbish devices or take them apart for spare parts. Recent types of cell phones, computers or TVs are usually checked and refurbished or disassembled for spare parts (by hand), but other devices often are not. Recycling
E-waste generally consists of plastic or metal casings, electronic circuit boards (chips), batteries and wiring. E-waste recycling can be profitable as many devices contain precious metals like platinum, gold, silver, copper, tin, aluminium, but also rare earth metals. The recycling process at a professional recycling company usually consists of the following steps: Sorting the devices
An e-waste recycler will generally sort devices by type first, because some devices may be reusable and because different devices require different methods of manual disassembly. Manual disassembly
Depending on the device, some manual disassembly may be done. For example batteries are removed, cartridges and toners are removed from printers, parts of TVs and monitors will be disassembled to remove the toxic lead and mercury that may be present. Shredding
Next the devices are generally shredded to pieces. Some recyclers first shred into fairly large pieces (about 10 cm).