In response to extended producer responsibility, promote zero waste, and to solve serious pollution problems caused by WEEE, E&E Recycling was established in August 1998 by 12 major home appliance manufacturers as Taiwan’s first licensed recycling plant and Asia’s first professionally operated WEEE treatment plant. E&E Recycling can deal with end-of-life electrical and electronic waste safely and environmentally, and hence able to avoid the negative environmental impact and harm caused by random dismantling and disposal.
E&E Recycling adheres to the vision of “resource recycling, urban mining, and sustainable use”. Waste home appliances and IT products are transformed into valuable resources through E&E Recycling’s physical process. E&E Recycling not only demonstrates extended producer responsibility, but is also a pioneer in practicing circular economy in Taiwan.
Linking up the green supply chain to create circular value for WEEE
E&E Recycling has now achieved a recycling rate of more than 85%. The recycled materials such as iron, copper, aluminum and plastics recovered from waste home appliances and waste IT products can be reused by the upstream manufactures. E&E Recycling also assists the manufactures to implement green design solutions such as material labeling, easy to dismantle and recycle solutions, which further strengthens resource recycling and sustainable value of materials.
Benefit
- By the end of 2018, E&E Recycling has treated more than 872 million waste home appliances and 807 million waste IT products.
- Resource retrieved are iron 171,000 T, copper 16,800 T, aluminum 7,500 T and plastics 65,000 T. Benefits achieved include energy saving and carbon reduction, resource sustainability and environmental conservation.