A planetary atlas of material flowsOpening this view…
Start with an everyday object or material.
Jump directly to a material, regional account or named facility.
A device contains a world of materials. Explore the path from manufacturing and use to dismantling, sorting and the recovery of metals and other components.
Manufacturing brings several material supply chains into one device. Some materials occur in very small amounts.
Manufacturing and extraction create upstream residues.
Repair and reuse can keep a device performing its original function before material recovery.
Unusable devices require a suitable collection route.
Approved processors dismantle devices and separate components requiring special handling.
Some fractions need specialized downstream treatment.
Material fractions move to downstream processors. Smelters can recover metals from suitable electronic scrap.
A fraction sent for further processing is not yet a measured final recycled output.
Further refining can produce material suitable for another manufacturing cycle. Horne-to-CCR is one documented copper-processing chain.
The EPRA records do not establish a shipment from a particular BC device to Horne.
Explore the local operations and regional systems that collect, transform and recover this material.
Checking available records…
It means material left a primary processor for another treatment stage. It does not prove that every tonne became a finished recycled material.