Quantifying waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) not arising in documented formal WEEE collection is a major challenge. This paper presents method to characterize estimate quantities of scrap metal. Two European Catalogue List Waste, codes 17 04 05, construction demolition wastes—iron steel 20 01 40, metals separated out from municipal, household, commercial, industrial waste, were ...

The current Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management system of the European Union to be applied in all member states was introduced 2002 by first WEEE directive (2002/96/EC). Since beginning, intended improve promote circular economy principles sector. This study aims at evaluating environmental social impacts Italy, with a special focus on collection recycling Campania Regio...

The efficient large-scale recycling of plastic waste is of increasing interest from an ecological and economic point of view but it represents a goal that has yet to be achieved by the recycling industry. The W2Plastics project aims at a fundamental change of the present status of plastics recycling by creating a breakthrough technology for the recycling of polyolefin’s from complex wastes, i.e...

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are a source of both hazardous valuable materials that must be segregated for treatment. Previous studies addressing the use handheld X-Ray fluorescence (h-XRF) as sorting tool WEEE plastics through identification components include from mixed streams, processed material (shredded or treated plastics) low number samples not allowing to consider t...