What is "e-waste"

The term 'e-waste' has been widely adopted to define all electronic equipment discarded by its previous user.  Some experts differentiate between 'e-scrap' and 'e-waste', scrap being the waste stream prior to separation of re-useable equipment and waste being the electronic materials destined for processing facilities.

At Zentech we have decided to go with the flow and we define 'e-waste' as all surplus electronics that is disposed of by the prior user.  We separate the 'scrap' from the 'waste', refurbishing and remarketing the equipment that can be reused and shipping the true junk to processing facilities by the truckload.

E-waste processors use a variety of processes to separate the materials contained in electronic equipment, achieving a 98%+ recovery rate of the various plastics, metals, glass etc that can be reused to manufacture anything from new electronics to plastic lumber.  This exploding industry uses a variety of techniques from manual dismantling to shredding and sophisticated chemical and mechanical processes to recover the enormous variety of materials contained in electronics.