Monitors are historically one of the biggest problems for e-waste. Here's a potential solution.
The PREVENT Waste Alliance, an initiative from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , aimed to develop a viable business model based on the concept of e-waste compensation, which is already used in procurement for mobile phones, laptops and tablets. A fee is added to the purchase price of new electronic gear in order to finance the collection of old equipment for safe recycling.
The raw materials recovered are then reused in the manufacture of new products, making them waste neutral. The aim of the pilot, which also involved TCO Development, the organisation behind the TCO Certified IT sustainability certification, was to extend the solution to monitors by training staff in how to safely dismantle them.The lack of experience in recycling flat screens in Nigeria, means that discarded monitors are often chucked into landfills, posing health and environmental risks.
By the end of the project, which involved the collection of over 5,500 unusable monitors, the recycler was able to dismantle displays safely and efficiently, reducing the costs such work would require. Some 30-tonnes of e-waste was collected and waste compensation was sold to MMD. Newer monitors do not contain mercury and MMD notes that no new Philip monitors contain lead either. However, there are thousands of old LCD monitors out there and many will be thrown out in the coming years. This kind of initiative could provide a solution. See our pick of the
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