GEC NEWS WIREIn March 2019, the world’s largest integrated electric and electronic waste recycling facility, The Recycling Hub by Enviroserve, was commissioned and officially opened at the Dubai Industrial City. Stuart Fleming, Group CEO of Enviroserve welcomed distinguished guests and visitors. Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, Dubai Industrial Park inaugurated the plant.
The 280,000 sqft e-waste recycling plant, is the world’s largest integrated facility that processes Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, IT asset disposition, refrigerant gas, and specialised waste. The facility, which features state-of-the-art Swiss technology that surpasses strict EU Standards for e-waste recycling, will accept all types of end-of-life electric and electronic equipment.
The Recycling Hub has a processing capacity of 100,000 tonnes of total integrated waste per year, of which 39,000 tonnes is e-waste. The facility can process the entire range from consumer and industrial to commercial and military. These include air conditioners, batteries, computers, household appliances, mobile phones, and even military avionics, to name a few. The integrated facility will also recycle specialised waste material such as aerosol cans, light bulbs, and FMCG products, and is currently the only dedicated refrigerant gas reclaim facility in the UAE.
The recycling facility’s mechanical separation process is chemical-free with industrial air filtration, allowing for a 96% recovery rate with zero air and liquid emissions. To put things into perspective, this means 38,000,000 kilograms of e-waste will be kept out landfills each year.
The AED 120 million project is backed by the Swiss Government Export Finance Agency and represents one of the largest foreign direct investments in the field of environmental management to date in the UAE. Enviroserve’s green recycling facility based in Dubai Industrial Park will service international e-waste recycling efforts across Africa, Middle East and Caucasus.
Stuart Fleming, Group CEO of Enviroseve, said: “The Recycling Hub is the outcome of Enviroserve’s pioneering 15-year journey in the e-waste industry and we look forward to elevating the sustainability movement in the region.”
A centre of expertise for electronic waste management in the region, Enviroserve has already begun processing electronic waste for its partner EPSON. During The Recycling Hub’s launch, Enviroserve announced its partnership with Nespresso to recycle all of the coffee giant’s aluminium capsules and machines in the UAE. Also during the launch event, the company announced a regional partnership with Lenovo to recycling and refurbish the latter’s electronic products.
Enviroserve’s launch of its innovative landmark The Recycling Hub at Dubai Industrial Park comes at a time when every year, some 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste is produced globally, of which only 20% is formally recycled. According to a UN-sponsored project finding, the average UAE resident generates 17.2 kilograms of e-waste every year, most of which contains harmful toxins, such as arsenic, cadmium and mercury.
Founded in Dubai in 2004 by Stuart Fleming and Brian Wilkie, Enviroserve is a pioneer in the electronic waste and refrigerant gas recycling industries in the Middle East and Africa. In 2018, Enviroserve soft-opened The Recycling Hub – the region’s largest integrated electronic waste recycling facility featuring brand protection and IT Asset Disposition ITAD services. Enviroserve is headquartered in Dubai with 8 branch offices in Angola, Georgia, Kenya, Lebanon, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Key takeaways
- The 280,000 sqft e-waste recycling plant is the world’s largest to process waste electrical and electronic equipment.
- It has a processing capacity of 100,000 tonnes of total integrated waste per year, of which 39,000 tonnes is e-waste.
- The facility can process air conditioners, batteries, computers, household appliances, mobile phones, military avionics.
- It will also recycle specialised wastes such as aerosol cans, light bulbs, FMCG products.
- It is the only dedicated refrigerant gas reclaim facility in the UAE.
- The facility allows for 96% recovery rate with zero air and liquid emissions.
- 38,000 tonnes of e-waste will be kept out landfills each year.
- The AED120 million project is backed by the Swiss Government Export Finance Agency .
- Enviroserve’s green recycling facility based in DIP will service recycling efforts across Africa, Middle East, Caucasus.
