Ressourcen- und Klimaschutz bei der Verwertung von Schrotten

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This lecture is part of the European Week for Waste Prevention (22.-30.11.2025), which this year is dedicated to the prevention of e-waste.

Waste electrical and electronic equipment is one of the fastest growing waste streams. These include cell phones, computers, televisions, household appliances, but also lamps, medical devices and photovoltaic modules. E-waste contains materials that can cause significant environmental and health problems if they are not disposed of properly. Modern electronics also contain rare and expensive resources that can be recycled and reused.

Dr.-Ing. Helmut Spoo and Dirk Wiescher, Dr. Spoo Umwelt-Consulting, Aachen, talk about how we can avoid electronic waste in Europe and sustainably recycle unavoidable waste electrical and electronic equipment. Innovative separation, sorting and processing methods are used to recover supply-critical raw materials such as rare earth metals, tantalum or platinum group metals and return them to the economic cycle. This helps to reduce our dependence on imports. "Product mining is a new approach to understanding today's products as valuable raw material deposits. The recovery of secondary raw materials also helps to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Link to the event and registration: Resource and climate protection in the recycling of scrap metal