The European recycling directive increases the pressure to improve the recycling processes for the rapidlyincreasing number of End-of-Life (EoL) flat screen televisions. Based on a case study an estimation of theexpected economic and environmental benefits of the availability of product information for different EoLtreatment strategies is provided. This case study demonstrates that pre-processing operations, such asdismantling, product sorting and clustering, allow to increase the economic viability and sustainability ofrecycling flat screen televisions. One of the main challenges for implementing pre-processing operations inan industrial setting is that these operations require the ability of product identification and specific productinformation, such as product structure and material composition. To allow such an exchange of keyinformation, a holistic life cycle approach is required, in which all different actors in the lifecycle are involved,as is achieved in the Flemish PRIME project.
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