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Condensers, capacitors and cables — just some of the electronic components that are thrown away each year as 21st century gadgets become last year’s model. Today, up to 50-million tonnes of electronic goods are produced worldwide. In Europe, these potentially polluting parts should be made safe and recycled. And France has set a target to collect 10 kilos per person between now and 2014. Laëtitia Warzee from Eco-systèmes said: “In 2009, the collection of electronic waste reached almost 6 kilos per person per year, but it’s reckoned the overall pool of rubbish amounts to 15 kilos. To put it another way, we don’t yet collect half of the discarded household goods that we would like to. But bear in mind too that each person buys the equivalent of 20 kilos of new electrical and electronic goods every year.” The re-birth of electrical and electronic goods begins at the collection points. One centre at Greater Nancy in Lorraine is among the most active in the field. Here, they have already begun a campaign to alert people about the need for collection and recycling. All of the electronic waste collected every day is brought to this sorting centre. “Once they arrive on site the first thing is to sort them by load so we can weigh them and identify where they’ve come from,” explained Pape Gueye, the head of the collection centre. Everything is weighed and the data is put into a national computer system that can follow each piece through every part of the process. Certain items are …
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