The E-waste management market in the United States is a growing market dominated by a number of global companies. Major players in the market include Stena Techno World, SIMS Recycling Solution, Waste Management, Kuusakoski and UMICORE among others. The ever growing digital world has ensured that there will always be a constant supply of electronics waste to support recycling companies. The recycling industry is however getting harder to enter with more regulations and certifications introduced to govern the industry which exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the various companies and also the opportunities that exist.
Strengths | Weaknesses |
Specializing and excelling in one area of the recycling process e.g. setting up successful collection centers done by Encore Company with over 100 collection sites in British Columbia. The company eCycle Solutions prides itself in its unique collection abilities where they label items using barcodes which give weight and product information considered very useful by processing companies further down the chain. eCycle solutions also boasts of being among the few companies engaging in both primary and secondary recycling as they have numerous collection points that move labeled sorted items to two processing plants that they have. | The specialization on the collection centers by companies such as Encore means they miss out on the revenue gotten from the processing and output of recycled material. Many companies still do a manual separation of the material they receive from the field with mechanical separation only beginning to take root. This means that many companies are not able to sort out as much items as is possible due to manual processes. Due to the expensive nature of shredding equipment, most companies avoid venturing into the liberation of materials by tearing apart electronic scrap. This means they miss out on revenue and also do not achieve 100% recovery of material that reaches their plants. |
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