• Capacitors containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• Mercury containing components such as switches or backlighting lamps
• batteries
• Printed circuit boards of mobile phones and of other devices if the surface area of the circuit board is greater than 10 square centimetres
• Toner cartridges
• Plastic containing brominated flame retardants (BFRs)
• Asbestos waste and components which contain asbestos
• Cathode ray tubes (CRTs)
• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and hydrocarbons (HCs)
• Gas discharge lamps
• Liquid crystal displays (LCDs), together with their casing where appropriate, of a surface area greater than 100 square centimetres, and all those back lighted with gas discharge lamps
• External electrical cables • components containing refractory ceramic fibres
• Components containing radioactive substances above exemption thresholds
• Electrolyte capacitors containing substances of concern (height > 25 mm, diameter > 25 mm or proportionally similar volume).

The above makes you realise that there is more to recycling old electronic and electrical equipment than meets the eye.

But don’t panic contact the experts at Secure Data Recycling and we will explain how we manage the complexities of recycling all the above undesirable substances.