Thermal plasma technology supports precious metal recovery from WEEE

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) consists of discarded electrical or electronic devices from domestic, commercial and industrial sources. Before the introduction of the WEEE Directive in January 2007, the disposal of electronics waste was largely unregulated. This led to a rather informal attitude to the processing of electronic waste, which can cause serious health and pollution problems, and allowed society to discard a major source of scarce and valuable metals.