PYROCYCLE

Management of the rapidly growing and highly hazardous electronic waste stream is one of the main environmental challenges currently facing Canada, and most other countries. Canada recycles or recovers only a small proportion of its e-waste, while up to 90% is disposed of in landfill sites or by incineration. Even the most technologically advanced disposal methods and facilities currently in use involve environmental hazards. Pyrocycle has developed a new thermochemical process for recycling the end-of-life electronics waste, which could greatly facilitate moving forward to produce clean and high quality products including the recovery of precious metals.