Most waste electronics are collected and the reusable salvage is culled out and the residual materials are grouped into bulk Electronics Scrap. There are several special selected items related to electronics recycling that may be segregated and dealt with separately to optimize the efficiency or economic return of your recovery efforts.
We have attempted to list a few of these items here for your consideration and economic benefit. Once the reusable fraction of items have been captured, general electronics recycling involves the separation of scrap materials that contain either scrap metals or Plastics wastes.

Used IC Trays
If you wish to Buy or Sell Reusable Integrated Circuit Trays, Please ADD your inquiry to the Used IC Trays exchange. The exchange service connects generators of used trays with recyclers that can reuse, refurbish or recover these items. You may also trade in other types of Used Commercial Containers.

Circuit Board Scrap
If you have an interest in the recycling of Circuit Board Scrap, add a listing into the Electronics Exchange to connect with buyers and sellers. Some recyclers are involved in the dismantling of Populated Circuit Boards in order to retrieve the salvageable resellable components, others shear flush the boards to liberate the components to facilitate the separation of different types of scrap.

Capacitor Scrap
One of the higher valued components contained on integrated circuit boards and commonly found in E-Scrap is the Capacitor. If you wish to Buy or Sell segregated Scrap Capacitors please submit your request on the Scrap Electronics Recovery exchange.

The two main types of Capacitor scrap that are commonly sought after are either Tantalum content or ceramic style Capacitors. Some types of ceramic Capacitors such as Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC) may contain various combinations of Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Tin (Sn), Silver (Ag) and/or Palladium (Pd).

Capacitors are typically sold based on the Scrap Tantalum content. If you are interested in understanding the values of Scrap Tantalum Capacitors you may obtain a Multi-Year Spot Market Price Summary.

Scrap Photovoltaic Cells
If you wish to recycle Photovoltaic Scrap recovered from dismantled Solar Panel Arrays, Scrap Solar Cells or End-of-Life PV Scrap, please ADD a listing to the Energy Product Recycling exchange.
Photovoltaic cells can be manufactured in a variety of ways and from many different materials. The conventional, first-generation, solar cell material is Silicon (Si) wafers. The second generation solar cells are a thin-film solar cell that is made by depositing one or more thin film layers (TF) of photovoltaic material on a base such as glass, plastic or metal. These thin-film materials include Cadmium Tellurium (CdTe), Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), and Copper Gallium Selenide (CIGS).

Solar Panel Recycling
If you wish to recycle Solar Panel Scrap recovered from dismantled Solar Panel Modules, please ADD a listing to the Energy Product Recycling exchange.

Permanent Magnet Scrap
The recovery of Permanent Magnets for scrap or reuse purposes poses a unique challenge in more than one respect. The most common concern typically surrounds the issues of security of supply as critical strategic Rare Earth Elements (REEs).
The second concern is related to the regulatory classification and handling of Magnets as a Dangerous Goods or as a potentially restricted waste material.

The main issues of interest within the recycling industry are primarily focused around the lack of economic infrastructure and incentive to participate in magnet recovery activities and in general recyclers must overcome the nuisance effect of handling Permanent Magnets.

The identification of devices in the wastestream that contain Permanent Magnets in the dismantling process is typical first step in order to isolate these materials into a designated processing stream. Items such as hard drives, speakers, motors, generators. medical & imaging devices are just some of the sources of Permanent Magnet Scrap.

In automated E-Scrap recovery systems the wastestream is typically shredded to obtain a uniform size reduction. Brittle magnets commonly shatter into small particles, powder or dust and the liberated magnet materials tend to indiscriminantly affix to any available steel surfaces. This nuisance effect may include sticking onto the processing equipment, inside of the shredders, on conveyor pulleys and bearings etc., accumulating and may clog and cause abrasive wear on the equipment.
Automated separation and removal modules for these stray magnet materials needs to be devised to insure the orderly flow of the system.

Neodymium Magnet Scrap
The collection of various sizes and shapes of Neodymium Magnet Scrap recovered from electronics scraps is typically a neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet material. Neodymium (Nd) is a Rare Earth Element (REE).

Electronic Battery Scrap
If you wish to find a recycler that deals in waste Electronic Battery Scrap, you may Add a listing to the Battery Recycling exchange.
The exchange service matches buyers and sellers of many types of end of life batteries, whether you have Lithium Ion batteries, Nickel content battery scrap, Alkaline and Dry Cells. No matter if they are generated as an old spent batteries from a cell phone, a UPS or flashlight the exchange acts as a link for recyclers. The exchange service also finds a home for Mercury content Battery Scrap.
Black Mass Battery Residue

Automotive Electronics Scrap (AES)
If you would like to recycle mixed Automotive Electronics Scrap (AES), please post an exchange listing to connect with potential trading partners.
AES materials include new automotive production waste streams and segregated electronic components recovered from dismantled end of life vehicles. Mixed AES byproducts may include electronic sensors, switches, displays, chips and circuit components that have been segregated from extraneous non-electronic materials.
For the purpose of marketing, storage and transportation, Battery Scrap should be kept separate from the AES mix. Please feel free to check-out other Automotive Recycling Info.