Laptop recycling is different from recycling ordinary old computers and other it equipment.
For example, every notebook has a harmful battery and an environmentally polluting TFT screen.
This is because the screens contain mercury.
Therefore, we recycle laptops separately from all other old computers.
Furthermore, laptops contain many usable metals that can be reprocessed.
This is why defective notebooks are often exported as waste to the Third World.
To combat this, WEEELABEX certification has been made mandatory for companies dealing with discarded computer hardware.
When having laptops collected for recycling, it is advisable to first check whether you are dealing with a WEEELABEX-certified party.
After all, this gives 100% certainty that everything is recycled legally and within the Netherlands.
Upon arrival at IT recycling, the battery is removed from each laptop for recycling and later recycled by IT recycling.
Laptops that we receive for recycling actually always have a Lithium battery and that needs to be recycled.
Read more about Lithium battery recycling here.