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At this workstation, an employee is manually dismantling parts of a paper shredder.
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This is where products arrive by truck.
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Here a dismantling expert is removing components from an MRI scanner. What remains of the product is prepared for shredding.
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Waste electrical and electronic equipment that was collected for recycling arrives at Mirec in containers and trucks. Loaders then drop the products into one of these two feeders.
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After manual pre-sorting this belt transports the waste electrical and electronic equipment to the next area, where they are shredded and sorted.
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A feeder and vibrating conveyor distribute the material evenly onto a conveyor belt, which transports it to the metal finder.
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This is a metal finder. It removes ferrous metals from the subfraction.
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If a piece of plastic remains attached to a metal screw after shredding, the metal finder will sort both with the metal fraction. This means that the plastic material will be lost, decreasing the yield of the recycling process.
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This feeder is the start of a separate sorting line. Loaders arrive to fill it with a subfraction that needs to be sorted further.
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This is the shredder. Its rotor, equipped with cutting knives, grinds the products up into smaller fragments. These fragments can now be separated into different fractions. In each sorting step a (sub)fraction that is present in a smaller volume is removed from a main volume of mixed fragments. By applying different sorting technologies this process is repeated until pure material streams remain.
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The feeders distribute the products evenly on a conveyor belt to prepare them for manual pre-sorting and decontamination.
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A vibrating conveyor shakes the subfraction, so an evenly distributed flow of material is deposited onto the conveyor belt.
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The conveyor belt transports the material towards an optical sorter.
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Cables are removed as much as possible, as they can cause problems during recycling. Pre-sorting also preserves more of their value than when they are shredded.
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This sorter uses optical instruments to separate materials from a subfraction. For example: removing PCBs from a plastic fraction.
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At this workstation you can see an employee dismantling a server cabinet.
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This conveyor belt moves the subfraction that passed through the metal finder we saw earlier towards an optical sorter
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Mirec employees manually pre-sort the waste electrical and electronic equipment to remove hazardous components and contaminants. Batteries, for instance, can be a fire hazard if they end up in the mechanised recycling process.
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Black plastics are impossible to identify with certain optical sorters. This is because the colour black absorbs (nearly) all visual/ infrared light, which means the sensors cannot detect these fragments. This too causes material losses in the recycling process.
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This sorter is connected to the separate sorting line we saw before. It uses optical instruments to separate materials from a subfraction. For example: removing PCBs from an aluminium fraction.
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At this workstation, a dismantling expert carefully yet rapidly removes valuable and/ or hazardous components from the product. The rest of the product is then sent to be shredded
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This is a hydraulic press. Whenever manual disassembly is impossible (either because the product is too robust, or its fasteners are inaccessible) it is used to crush and break open the product.
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This is the security room, which can be fenced off to prevent unauthorized access. It is a controlled environment that is used for the secure destruction of products and/ or data; in case this is required by the client.
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In some cases products (like the ones on these pallets) are sent to Mirec for dismantling because of overproduction, manufacturing errors, unsold or lost stock or because they are outdated.
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In this area products (primarily commercial e-waste) are manually dismantled. Sometimes products that could not be opened in the manual pre-sorting stage are also dismantled here.
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At this workstation, a dismantling expert carefully yet rapidly removes valuable and/ or hazardous components from the product. The rest of the product is then sent to be shredded
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Some of the items that are removed during manual pre-sorting are:
• Capacitors
• Batteries
• Components that contain mercury
• Components that could contain asbestos
• Toner cartridges
• CRTs
• Pressurised cylinders
• Heat exchange equipment
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Large or heavy components that could clog or damage the shredder are removed. These are considered unshreddables.
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At this workstation, a dismantling expert carefully yet rapidly removes valuable and/ or hazardous components from the product. The rest of the product is then sent to be shredded
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This floor scale is used to weigh the products when they enter or leave the facility.
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Here an employee is removing the packaging to prepare the products for dismantling.
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This area has ventilation to extract gasses or smoke that could be released during dismantling.
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Here another dismantling expert removes certain components from a product.
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High value materials and components, such as these PCBs, are manually removed and sorted.
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In some cases products (like the ones on these pallets) are sent to Mirec for dismantling because of overproduction, manufacturing errors, unsold or lost stock or because they are outdated.
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This is the security room, which can be fenced off to prevent unauthorized access. It is a controlled environment that is used for the secure destruction of products and/ or data; in case this is required by the client.
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