The WEEE-Trace project aims to: 1) Ensure full traceability of WEEE management from collection to treatment using advanced technologies like RFID and image capturing. 2) Identify the producer and product characteristics to support producer responsibility. 3) Reduce WEEE leaks from the controlled system and increase legally treated and recycled volumes to ensure proper recycling of collected WEEE using best available techniques.

1. WEEE-
WEEE-Trace Project
Full Traceability of the management of WEEE
CIP Eco-Innovation Program (Eco/10/277256 )
Eco-
WEEE Forum General Assembly
Málaga, November 2011

2. WEEE-Trace: Project Vision
Use of advanced ICT technologies (RFID, image capturing,
etc.) to:
• Ensure traceability of complete WEEE management chain.
• Identify producer and other product characteristics in
support of producer responsibility principle.
Purpose
Reduce WEEE leaks from controlled system
Increase volume of WEEE legally treated and recycled.
Ensure WEEE collected and managed is recycled properly at plants using BATs
i.e. WEEE-Labex
Track and control incidences like scavenging, etc.
Facilitate enforcement and reporting
Explore application of individual producer responsibility principle
Reduce fraud
Duration: 36 months (Jul 2011 Jul 2014)

3. WEEE-Trace: Project partners
Full life-cycle coverage: 9 selected partners and associates take part in
project consortium for pilot and demonstration activities.
Partners
WEEE compliance schemes Ecolec and
ASEKOL:
Technology provider: MCCTELECOM Different actions and objectives
(Project Coordinator by nature of program) by Ecolec and Asekol , but
Manufacturer of household appliances • complementary and
FAGOR:
• in partnership
Logistics operator: EMAUS
Treatment plant: ECOINTEGRA
Retail: Carrefour (External Associate)

4. WEEE-Trace
Applied for CIP Eco-Innovation Grant (2010)
Eco-Innovation Programme 2010
287 Projects presented : 42 projects selected (15%) selected
projects; 42;
15%
Results of evaluation:
score min
Total Score 34 not selected;
38 245; 85%
Relevance: Innovation and environment 7 7
Quality of the proposed actions 9 6
Impact on market and replication 8 6
Eco-innovation 2010
Budget and cost effectiveness 6 6
Financing of Projects (,000€)
European Added Value 8 6
Scoring high in 1.176
• Quality of proposed actions 833
• Impact on market and replication
Avg Financing per Project WEEE TRACE
• European Added Value

5. WEEE-Trace’s two legs
WEEE-Trace

6. Ecolec
WEEE-Trace Project Scope
Ensure WEEE traceability (by unit or container) of complete
management chain from collection to treatment plant
Scope:
Complete WEEE management chain
– 80 WEEE collection points
• + retail 80 Temporary storage
facilities
15 Logistics
Providers
40 Treatment
Plants
PT
– 15 logistic Operators
Retalers
– 40 treatment Plants PT
PT
Municpal
Collection Logistics
Points Providers

7. WEEE-Trace in Spain
Technology and Infrastructure
• ID Tagging of WEEE surfaces
– Barcoding + Numerical
– RFID: need to address shielding challenges
• Tracking through whole reverse supply chain
– Readers
– Arcs
– Video
• Integration into existing IT and ERP platforms

8. WEEE-Trace in Spain
Project status and plan Major issues
– Definition phase • Technical issues: tag positioning
• Sept’2011 June 2012 shielding, wear & tear, reading
– Implementation phase
• Integration in IT platform
• Pilots: Jan’2012 Sept’2012
• Deployment (incl.
communication, education and
• Full deployment: Oct’2012 training) at:
Dec’2013 – Collection points
– Logistics operators
2011 2012 2013 2014
Definition and Design – Treatment plants
Pilot phase
Deployment
• Selection of technology and
In operation equipment
– “one size doesn’t fit all”
• Product aspects

9. WEEE TRACE
ASEKOL – Current status
• ASEKOL has already implemented bar code labels and readers
in his supply chain
• Bar codes are initially scanned during loading of the WEEE on
the collection points, then several times during transportation
and finally when WEEE is treated
• Because there is a change in ASEKOL logistics there is a need
to change bar code system
• In the future ASEKOL is expecting higher demand from
producers to be charged only for treatment of WEEE they
really produce

10. ASEKOL – Main Goals of
WEEE-Trace Project
• New tracing system for WEEE and containers
• Producer responsibility: Be able to identify specific EEE
producer and manufacturing model
• Be able to identify age of the WEEE
• Be able to identify different technologies used or hazardous
waste risks (e.g. Plasma/LCD/LED screens, old PCB capacitors
etc.)
• All mentioned above should be done automatically and on-
line with no time delay

11. WEEE-Trace in Czech Republic
Technology and Infrastructure
• So called „sorting tunnels“
• Roller track equipped with
weight and dimension
measurement, bar code readers,
cameras
• „Read“ all available information
of the WEEE unit
• Identify a producer, model and other information
using comparison to a on line database

12. WEEE TRACE
ASEKOL – Expected Results
• Sort different WEEE streams according to non-visible
parameters
• Sort mixed WEEE according to different producer‘s „brands“
• Sampling and statistics of the WEEE
Czech part of the project is prepared in cooperation with Czech
Technical University – Faculty of Cybernetics and Artificial
Intelligence

13. WEEE-Trace
Life cycle considerations
Addressed by Fagor.
• Ensure compatibility with future RFID-embedded environmental
information in products.
– Readibility
– Format and content (use of fields)
• Opportunities for partnership with other initiatives i.e. WEEE-NET,
Project Π, etc; regarding:
– joint development
– standardization
– feasibility checking
– sharing experiences
– reducing time gap

14. WEEE-Trace
Expected Results: key metrics and Indicators
Economical
Environmental • Pay-back: 3 years
• > 5% reduction in costs
• Proper treatment and
• Reduction of fraud
recycling: 39%
• CO2: 34% as a result of Technical
improvements in recycling • >80% units in WEEE stream
identified by model producer,
and transport. technology use, etc.
• CFC emissions: 12% • > 75% RFID/>90 % BC reading levels
Market
• Project replication and
commercial applications

15. Thanks for your attention
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