By way of example, in 2017 a total of 296,000 tons of WEEE were collected in Italy alone, which is equivalent to about 5 kg per inhabitant, with enormous benefits that the Planet derives from simple conscious behavior. In reality, however, the WEEE produced in this country are more than 4 times and touch the million tons.
Worldwide, in 2014 an estimated 41,800,000 tons of WEEE were produced.
In Switzerland, the Office of Wastes and Polluted Sites in collaboration with the Cantonal Office of Statistics publishes the results of the waste census annually and in 2017 it emerged that the Canton of Ticino alone disposed of 1,170 tons of WEEE against further 3,851 tons sent for disposal to inland Switzerland. This implies that in the year 2017 alone approximately 5,021 tons of WEEE were produced.
The size of the plant module is equal to 1,971 tons per year, therefore the treatable matrices are more than abundant and easily available in any country in the world, leaving aside the huge potential markets of the highly technological and developed countries.
In addition, the plasma torch present in the plant can also treat catalytic converters, given that it shows that the potential market to which it is addressed is practically infinite and devoid of significant competition.
The transition from fossil fuels to electricity will also make this industrial installation even more competitive than disposal plants using traditional technologies, as this plant was created to manage the disposal of batteries, storage systems and recovery of metals from WEEE and will not have to therefore undergo adaptations of any kind.
