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    Sircel is taking the waste out of e-waste - Waste Management Review

    Sircel is taking the waste out of e-waste

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    Sircel has developed a world-first end-to-end solution that diverts up to 100 per cent of e-waste from landfill. Image: Sircel

    Anthony Karam describes walking through a European e-waste recycling plant as an epiphany.

    “I realised this is where we need to get to,” the Chief Executive Officer of green tech company Sircel recalls. “They had 60 tonnes of e-waste on the floor and by the end of the day it was all recycled or processed.

    “There’s no way to deliver the capabilities that we need to make a dent in e-waste in Australia with manual dismantling. We need this.”

    E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. A record 62 million tonnes was produced in 2022, up 82 per cent from 2010, and is on track to rise another 32 per cent, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030, according to global e-waste monitor UNITAR.


    In Australia, the statistics are just as daunting – an estimated 21 kilograms of e-waste is generated by each person every year.

    Anthony dedicated years to solving the e-waste problem by asking: What if we could do better? What would it take? And what would it look like?

    He says Sircel has lofty ambitions – to eradicate electronic waste from landfill, redirecting the valuable commodities back into the circular economy.

    Higher value metals and components are extracted from all forms of e-waste. Image: Sircel

    Through trial and error over the past eight years the company developed a world-first end-to-end solution that diverts up to 100 per cent of e-waste from landfill. And with the recent acquisition of it has the facilities and machinery to process larger volumes than all known Australian e-waste recyclers and processors.

    “Sircel has invested tens of millions of dollars in a unique process that is ethical and sustainable,” Anthony says.

    “This acquisition provides us with an undeniable platform in dealing with a national footprint for clients. Our primary focus was to lock down our process. We’ve done that. This fast-tracks establishing ourselves as a major player in Australia.”


    The Sircel system breaks down e-waste into all its commodity parts and regenerates those back into the circular economy. Up to 100 per cent of items can be processed without the need for prior dismantling.

    Nothing that comes through the facility is waste. The irony is not lost on Anthony, given Sircel operates under an Environment Protection Authority licence that deals with waste.

    He says it’s fundamental for Australia’s circular economy ambitions to change the language and access resources that have already been mined and used.

    “Nothing in our facilities is ending up as anything other than a resource,” he says. “We want e-waste to be relabelled to e-resources, so we drive change in the community and how businesses think about electronics.


    “When you get an understanding of some of the higher value metals and components that are included in manufacturing these devices, you understand if that material is in there, surely there’s a way to get it back out without losing its value or putting it in landfill. We wanted to find the best environmental and sustainable way to access each of those commodities. Our outputs are designed, or on the pathway, to being those industrial inputs that can be reused again in the marketplace.”

    Anthony says Sircel has deliberately positioned itself to deliver a solution for the broadest definition of e-waste – anything with a battery or cord – and it’s scalable.


    An estimated 170,000 tonnes of e-waste is collected annually through the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. Under a planned scheme expansion that is estimated to increase to 600,000 tonnes. Across multiple sites, Sircel is licensed to process in excess of 50,000 tonnes per year.

    The Sircel system breaks down e-waste into all its commodity parts and regenerates those back into the circular economy. Image: Sircel

    You begin to get a sense of the gap in the market. A gap, Anthony says, Sircel could fill tomorrow with certainty of feedstock.

    “If someone said, ‘work with us, we’ve got 100,000 tonnes earmarked here’, we know we would invest in five plants to deal with that,” Anthony says.

    “Our solution is very modular and scalable. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t have capabilities to deal with the whole volume. The solution is available if all the right resources and stakeholders are on the same page.”

    When it comes to having stakeholders on the same page, Sircel is advocating for policy and legislation changes to actively drive the circular economy. It made a submission to the recent Federal Government Senate Inquiry on waste reduction and recycling policies calling for e-waste to be treated as its own discreet category, not rolled up in a broader waste discussion.

    Anthony says there needs to be a holistic approach to understanding and managing e-waste from manufacturing, product stewardship, lifecycle usage, collection and recycling, and a nationally consistent policy framework for the treatment of e-waste.

    “Australia can be at the forefront of solving the e-waste challenge,” he says. “At the heart of the Sircel brand is a deep desire to make better possible.”

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