Life cycle assessment –
31 years of eRecycling

SENS and its partners have been actively committed to the environment for 31 years. Experience the eRecycling cycle now and receive interesting information on the achieved environmental benefits.

151'000
billions

saved eco-points (EP)

0,5%

recycled materials

99,5%

prevention of pollutant emissions (especially PCBs)

900’000
tonnes

of recycled materials

0.1%

Rest

0.9%

Zinc

1,4%

Glass

4,3%

Aluminium

5%

Copper

9,1%

Plastics

10,1%

Steel

69%

Iron

Purchase

Select an electrical or electronic appliance and accompany it on its journey through the eRecycling cycle.

Use

15kg

This is how much electronic waste every Swiss citizen collects on average each year.

Disposal

1,3 Mio

million tonnes
of electrical and electronic appliances were disposed of during the past 30 years.

Recycling

72%

of the components
of electrical and electronic appliances are recyclable.

Facts and figures

You can find the most important results from the 2020 life cycle assessment here. Take a look at how many electrical and electronic appliances have been recycled with the SENS take-back system over the past 30 years, how many recyclable materials have been recovered and how this has benefited the environment.

Environmental benefits

The life cycle assessment allows you to ascertain how the offering of a service or the manufacturing of a product impacts the environment. To this end, it is analysed which resources a product consumes over its life cycle and which emissions are associated with this. The various results can subsequently be shown in eco-points (EP).

Composition of environmental benefits

Recovered recyclable materials

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Thank you

We have to thank our approximately 1,500 partners for the outstanding performance of the SENS system over the last 30 years. We look forward to continuing to recycle materials with them in the future and to contributing to a sustainable environment.

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Life cycle assessment –31 years of eRecycling