ELECTROCOORD Hungary NonProfit Company For the sustainable development'

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ELECTRO-COORD Hungary Non-Profit Company For
the sustainable development.
Budapest, 1. June 2005.
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Directive of WEEE

• 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and the
  Council of 27 January 2003 Waste
  Electrical and Electronic Equipment
  (WEEE) 10 categories
• Large household appliances
• Small household appliances
• IT telecommunications equipment
• Consumer equipment
• Lighting equipments
• Electrical electronic tools (ex. Stationary
  industrial tools)
• Medical devices
• Monitoring control instruments
• Automatic dispensers

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Producer responsibility

• Product design
• protection of the environment
• Separate collection
• rate of separate collection 4 kg / inhabitant /
  year
• Hungary 31 December 2008
• Treatment, recovery
• recovery rate 70-80
• Financing
• before 13 August 2005 historical waste
• collective
• visible fee
• after 13 August 2000 future products
• individually by the producers

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Legal background

• The government decree 264/2004 is the
  transposition of the WEEE directive, which came
  into effect on 8 October 2004. The aim is to
  reach 4kg/capital in 2008.
• Producers may perform their obligations (take
  back, collection, recycling and safe-disposal)
  either
• on their own or
• trhough joining to a compliance scheme or
• by way of transferring their obligations to
  recyclers.
• A compliance scheme can be registered with the
  Environmental Protection Authority if it
• is classified as having non-profit legal status
  under the terms of the separate legal regulation
  on non-profit organisations
• allows anyone to use its services if the
  conditions specified in its founding statutes or
  deed of foundation are fulfilled
• has registered capital in the amount required
  for its primary activity, and not less than 75
  mHUF

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264/2004 (IX.23.) governmental decreeon taking
back wastes of electric and electronic equipment
(1)
Collection rate
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264/2004 (IX.23.) governmental decreeon taking
back wastes of electric and electronic equipment
(2)
Financial guarantee
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1995. LVI. Act. Environmental product fee from
1st January 2005.
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53/2003 sz. Exemption of environmental product fee
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Who is the owner, who is obliged to recycle ?
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WEEE Collective Recycling System - Hungary
Environmental Authority
Producers
Collective Recycling System ELECTRO-COORD Kht.

• Clearing House
• National Register

Licence
Logistics
Collection network
Information flow
Financial flow
Collection points
Recyclers
Material flow
Retailers
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ELECTRO-COORD - owners

• Electrolux Lehel Kft.
• Whirlpool Magyarország Kft.
• GORENJE Budapest Kereskedelmi Kft.
• Groupe SEB Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft.
• FAGOR HUNGÁRIA Kereskedelmi Kft.
• BSH háztartási készülék kerekedelmi Kft.
• Merloni Indesit H. Háztartástechnikai Kft.
• HTM Nemzetközi Kereskedelmi Kft.
• Dometic Hutogépgyártó és Kereskedelmi Rt.
• Miele Kereskedelmi Kft.

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ELECTRO-COORD organisation
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ELECTRO-COORD contracting partners 31 March
2005
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ELECTRO-COORD Market share
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EEE volumen between 2005-2008 (ton)
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Collection points - present
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New collection system
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Life time analysis - refrigerators
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End-of-life products - refrigerators
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End-of-life products collection

• Annual quantity 180-200.000 pcs.
• Collection points
• Reatil outlets 1200
• Waste collection points
• Municipality 53
• Trade 61

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Fridge recycling Step 1.

• Tapping of cooling ciruit at lowest point with
  special gripper
• The patented evacuation tool ensures the
  loss-free puncturing of the cooling circuit.
• Extraction of CFC-lubicant mixture
• R12, R502, R22, R143a, R600A, etc
• Separation CFC from oil
• RAL standard 115 g CFC
• Materials
• Oil, CFC, Glass shelving, Capacitors, Mercury
  switches, Compressors

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Fridge recycling Step 2.

• Shredding
• Separation
• Steel, aluminium, copper, plastics
• Separation CFC from PUR
• CFC
• PUR
• RAL standard 283 g CFC

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Material balance sheet
Refrigerant, lt0.1
Foaming agent, 0.2
Electronics, 1
Steel, 48
Compressor, 20
Insulation, 12
Plastics, 14
Aluminium, 2
Glass, 4
Zinc, lt0.1
Copper, 1
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