E-Structors was making its debut with an e-waste destruction system that promises 100% recycling. First, computers and other electronics are shred into 1½-inch chunks. Then a cross-belt magnet removes the ferrous metal, and an eddy current system separates and sorts the non-ferrous metals as the plastics drop through. The metals are sent to secondary scrap markets to be melted for use in new products and the plastics are used as fuel for smelting -- all in accordance with EPA-approved methods.
In Search of Green Technology
date:
2/27/2007
Shredders are not new. The difference is our separation technique that guarantees 100% recycling.
Mike Keough
E-Structors co-founder
E-Structor's mission as a company is to change the way the country looks at the disposal and recycling of computers and electronics, and if we're going to succeed in this mission, we need to start with the largest producer of this type of materials -- the federal, state, and local governments.
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