Each year since FY16, Australia & New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP) engages Lifecycles to undertake a comprehensive LCA to evaluate the environmental impacts of its operations within its TechCollect program and across the whole value chain.

The study includes a thorough analysis of the environmental impacts from the point of e-waste drop off at a collection site, through to logistics and recycling, all the way to downstream processing and final disposition of commodities.

FY23 was an improvement on FY22, with 19,195 tonnes of e-waste recycled through TechCollect!

This improvement was driven by:

• An increase in plastics being recycled compared with last year, leading to savings in the avoidance of production of virgin plastic material

• A volume increase in manually disassembled compared with mechanical pre-processing (from 50.5% to 58.2%)

• Improved freight efficiency (3.3% reduction in freight kms for the same tonnage shipped)

• An improved water model adopted starting FY23 and continuing thereafter

• An upgraded model for printed circuit board recycling implemented from FY23 onward to enhance accuracy.