The Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipments (WEEE) includes all electrical appliances and electronic equipments which become waste after their useful lifespan. The scrap refrigerators, freezers, televisions, washing machines, medical equipments, IT & telecommunication equipments, etc. are included under WEEE. The WEEE generation in India is approximately 1,50,000 tonnes per year, while at global level it is more than 40 million tonnes per year. The WEEE scrap could be shredded, processed and sorted into different components to recover valuable recyclable fractions.

The hardware components used in various Information Technology (IT) products become scrap after the end of their useful life. The scraps of IT products include main-frame computers, personal computers, monitors, laptops, notebooks, printers, keyboards, mouse, etc. During the recycling of scrap IT products, shredders are used to generate marketable output at economically efficient manner.

The small home appliances include TV sets, CD players, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, irons, toasters, hair dryers, blenders, juicers, deep fryers, etc. All these small home appliances have definite shelf life and after that they become scraps. There is a great economic potential and useful marketable fractions could be generated by shredding of scraps of various small home appliances.

Several million scrap refrigerator units are disposed every year in India and at global level. The shredding and recycling of refrigerator waste generates marketable iron, incinerable pellets, marketable plastics and marketable non-ferrous metals. The recycling of scrap refrigerators is the most significant segment after consumer electronics and has associated economic benefits.

Almost all electronic products in the world have “Printed Circuit Board (PCB)”, which is a non- conductive material with conductive lines printed on it. Electronic components are mounted on the PCB to form a working assembly. The production value of PCB is more than 30 billion dollars; however the life cycle is very short for many such products. As a result, more and more PCB based electronic waste is generated all over the world. Two types of PCB wastes need to be recycled – one from the reTyred electromechanical products and second from the waste of PCB production processes. The PCB recycling should separate metal and non-metal effectively and efficiently. For the reuse of metal and non-metal, the separation ratio must be very high. The proven FORNNAX Recycling Technology offers three-stage PCB Recycling line as Primary Shredding, Granulation and Fine Grinding as a complete solution. At the stage of Primary Shredding, PCB wastes undergo size reduction to obtain more manageable pieces. This helps in easy sorting of metal from ceramics and fibre-glass. It also helps to loosen the attached pieces from the board. The rough shredded PCB materials pass through granulation and fine grinding processes, followed by a separation process where undesired materials are removed and metals are recovered. Metallurgical process is used to refine the recovered precious metal from the metal powder, while the non-metal obtained by recycling is used as filling material for building materials and so on.