Poland: Terra Electrorecycling Plant Went into Operation
In April this year, Terra Electrorecycling, a subsidiary of the Elemental Group, opened one of the most modern e-waste processing plants in Poland.
According to the company’s representatives, this will strengthen the firm’s position in the region and expand the scope and scale of its operations. The new installation in Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw “will enable processing 100 refrigerators per hour, regardless of the type of refrigerant used in the device’s construction”, the company pointed out. “It is worth noting that older technology allows the processing of 60 Freon refrigerators or 30 pentane refrigerators within 60 minutes.” Refrigeration appliances would undergo mechanical shredding, while other e-waste will be dismantled manually. The target capacity of the new plant would be 70,000 tons of waste electrical and electronic equipment per year, of which refrigerators will account for 20,000 tons. The installation was built by the German company URT.
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 2/2024, Page 44, Photo: Terra Recycling)
