E-recycle with relevant partners

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If you wish to change your equipments, consider first their after-life and prefer the following incentives:

  • Sell obsolete / old hardware to your staff at a discounted price
  • Donate them to charities
  • Sell them to intermediates which will repair and recondition them

See our solution above "Extend equipments total lifespan: Repair, Keep longer, Find a new usage" for charities and intermediates.

Keep in mind that before disassembling, you should conduct an assets audit and see what can be re-used, re-conditionned and what has to be recycled.

For the hardwares that have to be recycled, do not forget that Electronic waste requires to be segregated from other waste, collected and treated properly, because they contain up to 60 different elements including toxic ones (lead, cadmium, mercury but also PVC, brominated flame retardants...) and rare earth elements (Neodymium, Terbium, Dysprosium, etc.).
Source: IntechOpen

The technologies used to recover those rare earth elements have been improved over time, as they represent a high resale value. Recycling would reduce the risks to harm the environment and the human health, and also the need to mine new raw materials.

You can contract directly with a specialised recycler to dispose of your equipment or bring it back to your suppliers: under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on e-waste, suppliers of electronic goods must take back old products, and send them to a licensed recycler.

You may see here details of some e-recycling companies in Singapore.

You have personal e-waste to discard? Here is a list of all collection points available in Singapore.

60,000 tonnes

of e-waste generated in SG per year, equivalent to discarding ~70 mobile phones per person! (Towards Zero Waste)

19,9kg

annual e-waste generated per capita in Singapore. (Global ewaste)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Find the recycling plan relevant to your equipment:
- Dell
- HP
- HP Planet Partners Program  
- Canon
- Epson

You may see here details of some e-recycling companies in Singapore.

For individuals, here is a list of all collection points available in Singapore.