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Appendices
Appendix 1 Equipment types and their classification according to the WEEE Directive
and to the equipment groups defined in this thesis ...................................... 145
Appendix 2 Average concentration of precious metals in different equipment types
(median of the reported concentrations) ....................................................... 147
Appendix 3 Average concentration of precious metals in printed circuit boards from
different equipment types (median of the reported concentrations) ............. 148
Appendix 4 Past and current work on the definition of guidelines and quality
specifications for WEEE management ......................................................... 149
Appendix 5 Generation of sWEEE in Germany and in the USA in 2007 estimated with
the ‘batch leaching’ method .......................................................................... 150
Appendix 6 Estimation of the average concentration of gold and palladium in the
different equipment groups ........................................................................... 154
Appendix 7 Flows of sWEEE in Germany and in the USA in 2007 (tonnes) ................... 158
Appendix 8 Flows of gold associated with sWEEE in Germany and in the USA in
2007 (kg)....................................................................................................... 159
Appendix 9 Flows of palladium associated with sWEEE in Germany and in the USA in
2007 (kg)....................................................................................................... 160
Appendix 10 Flows of sWEEE (tonnes) and flows of gold and palladium (kg)
associated with sWEEE in Germany and in the USA in 2007 ...................... 161
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