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contains about 580 tonnes of copper – will be reducedby more than 50 percent. Furthermore, preventing illegalexport could result in recycling an additional 9,800tonnes of e-waste, containing 294 tonnes of copper. Thecombined value of these flows is more than EUR 5 million.Prior experience with B2B take-back models and cashreturn for high grade products will further improve recoveryand recycling rates.The quality of recycled copper can also be improvedthrough the circular economy model. Componentproducers and manufacturers need to adapt designs andproduction processes for remanufacturing. Refurbishersneed to increase reuse in place of recycling. A particularchallenge will be increasing the market share of formalWEEE recyclers and improving the quality of output frominformal recyclers; law enforcement can help to facilitatethis. Copper is recovered from most e-waste, but moreadvanced recycling is needed to retrieve precious metalsand other special metals. Growing recycling volumesexpand the market for new technologies and these canincrease recyclers’ returns per unit throughput.The key enablers for this model are as follows:For high-grade electronic products, financing use insteadof ownership through leasing and pay-per-use models iscoming up in the B2B market. It is an effective instrumentto control product use and their recycling. Electronicsretailers’ are still reluctant to embrace models other thanownership in the B2C market.Setting rules and standards or components andproducts that should be designed to enable costeffectivedismantling and recycling of high-value electricalequipment. Some manufacturers are already using thesedesigns but standards would help ensure all companiesfollow new norms to create larger flows of products tobe reused.More high-level reuse (up-cycling) can be achieved byfostering innovation to make technological improvements.This is especially the case for technologies focused onsmaller streams of special metals. Better recovery from allwaste streams can be achieved by new technologies thatenable better sorting and retrieval of copper mixed in withother residual waste or contaminating metal scrap waste.44/73PORT OF ROTTERDAM / RABOBANKPATHWAYS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
These technologies might also offer ways for secondarymining in existing landfills. For example, more effective ashrecycling and scrap metal separation could recover 1,000tonnes of copper, worth EUR 6 million.45/73PORT OF ROTTERDAM / RABOBANKPATHWAYS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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