Company Reveals Plans for WEEE Recycling Facilities

Lincolnshire-based recycler Environcom plans to install a network of recycling facilities for electronic equipment across the U.K. and Ireland, according to a report on www.letsrecycle.com.

The company intends to install more than 3 million metric of recycling capacity during 2006 at 12 potential sites across the U.K. and Ireland.  

Environcom opened its first cathode ray tube recycling plant in Grantham in 2004, and will add a general waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling facility after Christmas, according to letsrecycle.com. It is also developing plans to open a second site in the Northeast of England.

Environcom Technical Executive Jeff Weeks tells letsrecycle.com that "At present plans are to open two plants every month from the end of the first quarter of 2006 onwards. By the end of the year, each facility will be able to run to capacity."

The sites will use the same technology that the company's Grantham plant uses, according to the report.

Environcom recently took in its first delivery of electronic waste from Ireland. If the Irish plant goes ahead, Environcom could be the first company to place WEEE recycling capacity in Ireland, the company told letsrecycle.com.