Who are we?

ECORESET SA was founded in 2010 and operates two facilities in Aspropyrgos, 20 km west of Athens. The company specializes in the classification, decontamination, and treatment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), end-of-life cables and municipal bulky waste. ECORESET’s facilities are WEEELABEX certified for all WEEE streams and for quality, health and safety and environmental performance for ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 27001:2022 management systems. The company also operates a WEEE sorting and appliance preparation center for reuse, including IT and small home appliances repair and refurbish operations. The total amount of waste diverted from landfill from ECORESET’s activities exceeds 40ktn per year with an average material recovery and recycling rate of 96% (ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, aggregates, SRF, reuse).

Ambition statements

• To enhance sourcing of ICT equipment for recovery purposes and establish a leading position in the local market
• To optimize the industrial treatment of waste from electric and electronic devices in line with the CRMs recovery targets
• To develop recycling-oriented classification and characterization of EoL NdFeB magnets from HDDs
• To explore the critical parameters for further processing and re-usage of magnets in upcycling applications
• To be engaged in a novel business model including a wide range of stakeholders from chemical industry, metallurgy, and academia

Specific technologies related to project

Waste inventory and magnets characterization including selecting the demagnetization and quantitative analysis using XRD and ICP-OES to determine the content of B, Fe, Ni, Dy, Nd, Co.