PlasTicker-News from 22 April 2004 - Link 

The CreaSolv^®-Process – Technical break-through in Plastic Recycling from Electro Waste

Every year approximately 2 million tes of electronic waste are collected in Germany. This quantity corresponds to a fully loaded train with a length of 2,000 km. One fifth of this waste is made up of plastics. These plastics cannot be re-used, because they appear as “mixed waste”, contaminated with undesired flame retardants.  Due to the high content of impurities and contaminants they are classified as requiring “special control“ and have to be waste-handled at a high cost.  This despite the fact that they represent a potentially  high value resource of approximately 400 million Euros,...
...if the contaminants could be removed.

CreaCycle Flyer on 11 January 2004

Recycling of Mobile Phones

WEEE directive drives the development of new separation technologies
The mobile phone sector is one of the fastest growing markets in the IT business. For example from 1995 to 2001 the number of German mobile phone users increased by a factor of 15. Due to the fast technological progress and the trend of changing the mobile every second year huge amounts of waste mobile phones are expected during the next few years.

PlasTicker-News vom 14.01.2004 - Link

Industriepartner gesucht: Kunststoffrecyclate in Neuwarequalität

Mechanische Kunststoff-Regranulierung scheitert heute bei verschmutzten, nicht sortenreinen und mit unerwünschten Additiven und Kontaminanten belasteten Abfällen wie post-consumer EPS oder flammgeschützte Thermoplaste aus Elektro(nik)altgeräten.
Das am Fraunhofer-Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung IVV (www.ivv.fraunhofer.de) entwickelte Verfahren zum werkstofflichen Kunststoffrecycling mittels selektiver Extraktion wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit der CreaCycle GmbH, Grevenbroich, optimiert. Es kann nun als CreaSolv^®-Prozess im Rahmen zweier Forschungsprogramme in einer Technikumsanlage und einer industriellen Demonstrationsanlage umgesetzt werden.

„Cycle-PSE“ – Aperçu du projet Innonet 3578

1. Le projet
Le polystyrène expansible (PSE + XPS) – Plus connu sous le nom de marque Styropor^® - est principalement utilisé dans la construction (75 %) à cause de ses bonnes capacités d’isolation, et dans l’emballage (16%) à cause de la bonne protection mécanique et électrique qu’il apporte. Les plaques d’isolation, les plaques Poroton^®, les boites pour transports réfrigérés et les emballages d’articles électroniques sont quelques exemples des applications des 220,000 tons de PSE employées en Allemagne seulement.

„EPS-Loop“ - Oververview of the InnoNet-Project 3578

1. The Project
Expandable polystyrene(EPS + XPS) – better known as product brand Styropor^® - is mainly used in the construction industry (75 %) because of its good insulating properties and in packaging (16%) because of the protection it provides against mechanical or electrical shocks. Insulation sheets, Poroton^® tiles, cooling transportation boxes and packaging of electronic articles are examples of applications. 220,000 tons EPS per year are used in Germany alone! 
The aim of the project is to develop a recycling process with the capability to produce expandable polystyrene from collected EPS waste.