SRS Canada Opens New Facility

Sims Recycling Solutions has opened its newest electronics recycling facility, a 287,000-square-foot facility, in Mississauga, Ontario.

The three-phase project includes a fully mechanized cathode ray tube (CRT) recycling process that yields commodity grades of leaded and non-leaded glass from monitors and televisions; better metals recycling technologies; and the newest plastic separation technology allowing for closed loop recycling of plastics.

According to SRS, Phase 1 includes a fully mechanical CRT processing line, capable of processing 20,000 pounds per hour, providing the highest recycling rates available in the industry.

Phase 2 of the project is a full primary metals separation line; including the newest metal separation technology employed by SRS.

Phase 3 of the project includes a plastics separation line providing twice the recycling rate of plastics of current separation technologies.

“The economies of scale, security, environmental performance and associated low carbon footprint of this single process will offer our customers better value and peace of mind for their recycling requirements,” says Cindy Coutts, president of Sims Recycling Solutions Canada.

“Ontario, home to 39 percent of the Canadian population, is the latest province to mandate WEEE recycling. The volume of WEEE requiring processing in Ontario alone has increased from a strictly voluntary market to over 42,000 metric tons per year forecast driven by regulation” says Coutts. “The investment by Sims Recycling Solutions into both new recycling technology and facilities provides evidence of the company’s commitment to continuously developing better green technology and more green jobs in Canada”

The new facility will give SRS Canada total processing electronic scrap capacity of 100,000 tons per year. The company’s Brampton, Ont., facility has annual electronic scrap capacity of 25,000 tons per year.