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17. 06. 2010 The study says - Recycling saves the environment!
In Prague, on the press conference was introduced the presentation of researching project financed by ASEKOL Fund. At the same time, those applicants of successful projects were given a symbolic checques.
The third year of beneficial mission of ASEKOL Fund supports publicly beneficial projects related to taking back and recycling electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Together 31 institutions or companies will get the financial support over 2,2 million CZK. The biggest financial administrated support was for the researching project - Life Cycle Assessment.
ASEKOL decided to exactly determine the environmental impact of the collection and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. For this reason, together with external professionals, it compiled a unique life-cycle assessment (LCA) in 2009, of discarded TV sets and monitors, which constitute approx. 80 % of all EEE
collected within a collective scheme. The aim of the study was objective, transparent and internationally acknowledged description of environmental effects connected to take-back, transport and treatment of TV and monitors till the stadium - compensation primary raw materials. In fine, there was made a model to make a evidence of individual environmental effects for customers (collection points, producers, etc. ) Gathering of the relevant data required more than 8 months of difficult work by the employees of ASEKOL. All positive and negative environmental inputs and outputs within