bulletin-electronique de Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes - 30. Aout 2006

Technologie de la production
CreaSolv^® est un nouveau procédé de recyclage des déchets électriques particulièrement performant

http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/38794.htm

La société Fraunohfer a développé un procédé particulièrement performant qui permet de recycler 95% des déchets électriques. Dans le cadre d'une comparaison internationale menée par l'organisation britannique WRAP (Programme d'action pour les déchets et les ressources), ce procédé a été considéré comme étant le meilleur aujourd'hui, tant d'un point de vue économique qu'écologique. Ce procédé, baptisé CreaSolv^®, a été développé par l'institut Fraunhofer IVV de génie des procédés et de l'emballage.

Fraunhofer IVV Press Release on 18 August 2006

Economical Plastic Recycling of Electro- / Elektronic Waste

Electro-/elektronic waste contains different plastics as well as many impurities and contaminants. In order to recycle the plastics, the main challenge is to remove dangerous substances like flame retardants first. The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Technology and Packaging IVV achieved a technical break-through with the CreaSolv^®-Process.

InnoNet News Nr. 18, June 2006 edition, page 2 

Success through Cost Control
Environmentally-friendly recycling process enables recovery of Styropor^®

Frost & Sullivan Research Service - published: 24 Mar 2006

Advances in Electronic Waste Recovery
(Technical Insights)

In Europe, the Creasolv^® solvent removal technology shows great promise in dissolving the brominated flame retardants from WEEE and separating them for use in the bromine industry. In this way, the final plastic stream obtained contains less than 0.1 percent flame-retardant content in adherence to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive and is fit for reuse in the electronics manufacturing industry.

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Waste Management & Research, Vol. 24, No. 6, 573-583 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/073424X06068520

Recycling of flame-retarded plastics from waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Martin Schlummer, Andreas Mäurer, Thomas Leitner and Walter Spruzina 

Shredder residues produced in plants processing waste electric and electronic equipment are excluded from material recycling due to a variety of polymeric materials and the presence of brominated flame retardants (BFR), which might contain banned polybrominated diphenyl ethers or toxic polybrominated dioxins and furans   (PBDD/F). Herein we present a technological approach to transfer a significant portion of the shredder residue into recycled polymers. The technological approach   consists of a density-based enrichment of styrenics, which are subjected to a solvolysis process (CreaSolv^® process) in a second stage.