Following the publishing of the EU WEEE directive, Hungary was the 4th among the member countries where the stipulation of the directive was put into force from August 13, 2005. Hungary has got 2 years derogation time to effectuate the 4 kg/cap./annum minimum collection demand : so it is by the year 2008 when we have to be able to collect a minimum of 40.000 tons of e-scrap in Hungary.
At Inter-Metalex we started collecting e-scrap material in 1999. The primary source of the waste was the Hungarian Telecom company MATÁV which at that time begun replacing the old crossbar exchanges. Since that Inter-Metalex has vastly expanded its circle of suppliers and as a result it handles over 2500 tons e-scrap annually.
Country-wide collection of WEEE scrap
With our take-back service we cover the area of the whole country. Please fill-in our on-line order form and you’ll be contacted shortly to fix an appointment that is convenient for the delivery.
We provide you with the documentation of the take-back and on the proper handling of your waste equipments.
We offer regular collections from municipal collection sites, equipment services and retailer shops. We can make available containers of different sizes for storage of WEEE.
We are content to offer our B2B services for producers and their end-users. We always prepare quotations taking advantage the technical characteristics specific for given waste equipments in this way we respect producer’s ecodesign efforts in our service charge.
Treatment activities at the Csepel facility
- reception of collected e-scrap
- weighing by categories and classification according to further treatment methodes
- manual dismantling and removal of hazardous parts
- mechanical treatment with shredder technology and separation
- destroying of floppies, CDs and other type of confidential data carriers
Collection of all the 10 WEE equipment categories!
Refrigerators, CRT containing equipment and fluorescent lamps are directly forwarded to authorised companies where these scraps are treated in environmentally sound manner.
At the first processing stage partial dismantling of devices carried out by manually removing hazardous components and big plastic housings. Depolluted scrap goes for mechanical processing by means of shredder and further separation equipments’ line.
Pan-European recovery centers
The recovered metals iron and aluminium either in shredded or manually dismantled form are forwarded to Hungarian smelters. Printed circuit boards and other copper and precious metals content materials are delivered for metallurgical treatment to the few specialised companies where the valuable metals are recycled in an environmentally sound manner.
The recovered metals iron and aluminium either in shredded or manually dismantled form are forwarded to Hungarian smelters. Printed circuit boards and other copper and precious metals content materials are delivered for metallurgical treatment to the few specialised companies in Belgium and Sweden where the valuable metals are recycled in an environmentally sound manner.
If you have any question do not hesitate to contact to Ervin