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Providing employment opportunities
for people living with a disability
Ewaste Recycling: What We Recycle
Computer Recycling
In Australia alone, there are 1.6 million computers dumped in landfill every year.
Mobile Phone Recycling
There are 32 million mobile phone subscribers in Australia.
Scrap Metals Recycling
Brass, copper, steel, aluminium & stainless steel can be recycled to be reused after being refined.
Telecommunication Equipment Recycling
Telecommunication equipment includes transmitters, receivers, power amplifiers, antennas, cables, DSL equipment, satellites, telephones, mobile devices and more.
TV Recycling
In Australia eWaste is produced at up to 3 times that of normal household waste production, and TVs are a huge source of this waste.
Appliances & Tools
Any appliance or tool that you can plug in or use with a battery can be recycled.
Ewaste Recycling & Collection
eWastec provide collection services to all corporate businesses, schools, councils and government owned facilities.
Certified Destruction
eWastec are conscious of the need to protect your highly sensitive information.
Ewaste Tailored Solutions
Sometimes your ewaste collection and recycling needs are not straight forward. Speak to the experts at eWastec for a solution.
NTCRS
The NTCRS provides Australian householders and businesses with access to industry-funded collection and recycling services for televisions and computers.
Don’t bin it, eWastec it.
Ewaste Recycling: Ewaste contains a number of toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury and phosphors which, if sent to landfill, can have a devastating effect on the local environment. Furthermore, many of the materials required for the manufacture of new electronic products require mining of our natural resources if recycled raw materials are not available. As you can see ewaste recycling is very important.
eWastec has over 20 years’ experience in the ewaste recycling industry and is an established electronic waste service in Australia. eWastec has evolved from its focus primarily on the recycling of television and computers to include general ewaste products. Many of the ewaste recycling processes are done manually to ensure the impact of ewaste on our environment is nullified.
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Video 1 Transcript
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We started eWastec back in August of 2015. The vision and the goal of starting and creating this business was not only around the recycling of e-waste, but primarily to provide opportunities for people with disabilities.
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I love working with a wide range of people — two things I love about my job are working with other guys and learning which part to take apart, and if I need help, they can help me. Last year I was awarded the MVP, and it was very good.
0:33
Early days we were focused almost exclusively on television and computer products, which is relatively simple to pull apart and extract the valuable commodities. Nowadays the e-waste is becoming a lot more complex — a lot of material has batteries embedded into it, which is quite difficult to pull apart.
0:47
So from an employment perspective, the bulk of our staffing in the early days was people with disabilities and supported workforce. Nowadays I’m having to put on additional people to drive forklifts and trucks and pull apart more complex types of material.
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Currently, the NTCRS is about 40% of our revenue, so essentially without the NTCRS, our volumes would significantly drop. I think the majority of people in this country are probably expecting that the government is paying for the recycling — and a big part of the recycling industry has that challenge because there isn’t the motivation for someone to go, “I’m happy to spend $10 to get my television recycled.”
1:28
Adding extra items and materials into the scheme would definitely help. It would certainly motivate the people who are currently either holding on to that material or illegally dumping it, or putting it into landfill.
1:45
When the Victorian government banned e-waste from landfill, we certainly expected that there would be a fairly big uplift in the amount of that type of material coming through here. It’s certainly not what we expected — that’s predominantly because we have to charge for the recycling of that material.
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If that was being funded by the taxpayer or the manufacturers — the people creating that type of waste — that would definitely encourage more of that type of material to end up coming through businesses like ours.
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Expanding the NTCRS to incorporate other material would certainly result in greater employment opportunities for our business. Assuming the material is simple enough to pull apart, that means a lot of jobs for people with disabilities. And it would encourage more of that type of material to come through to businesses like ours, as opposed to ending up in landfill or being illegally dumped.
Video 2 Transcript
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Did you know that in Victoria, as of July 2019, it is illegal to dispose of e-waste in any old bin, as it’s now banned from going to landfill?
Video 3 Transcript
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Did you know that in your average e-waste mix there are heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, lead, and beryllium, which are toxic to the environment?
Earth-conscious, community-focused
eWastec manually processes all Computer and TV ewaste that enters our Seaford plant enabling us to ensure the integrity of many of the downstream commodities whilst maximising the recovery rate.
We process general ewaste recycling in large volumes using our specialised plant at our Seaford office.
Our commitment to minimising waste to landfill is detailed in our policies (See Policies Page). Our goal is to minimise waste to landfill. We currently recycle more than 95% of all waste at our facility.
FAQs
1. Is e-waste recycling free with eWastec?
Drop-off at the Seaford site is free for the public; business collections are quoted based on volume and material type.
2. What areas does eWastec service?
eWastec is based in Seaford, VIC, with collection services across Melbourne suburbs including Bangholme, Campbellfield, Carrum Downs, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Epping, Frankston, Laverton, Mornington, Mulgrave, Richmond, Seaford, and Tullamarine. We also service corporate/government clients and participate in the government NTCRS scheme.
3. What happens to my e-waste after collection?
Most items are manually disassembled at the Seaford facility to maximise recovery of valuable commodities, with eWastec recycling more than 95% of everything it receives.
Client Testimonials
“The guys at Ewastec are really easy to deal with and made my job so much easier! Nothing is too hard for them and they are well organized, flexible and thorough.”
“When running operations for a nationwide business you need to have
reliable partners. Ewastec are professional and have helped us deal with our ewaste. They do the job right the first time.”
“It’s so easy to drop off my ewaste in Seaford. I’m glad that my ewaste can be recycled and reused rather than end up in landfill”
