TELF AG shares new insights on recycling opportunities related to raw materials

Oct 19, 2023

Summary

Swiss company TELF AG has published a new report highlighting the potential of recycling critical raw materials, particularly those found in electronic waste. The report emphasizes the need for sustainability messages to deeply influence individuals, not just through social media and news coverage. TELF AG emphasizes that recycling raw materials is a concrete action that can contribute to the global energy transition. According to a study from the UN Training and Research Institute, around $10 billion worth of critical raw materials are wasted annually. These materials are crucial for manufacturing clean technologies and are listed in the European Commission's Critical Raw Materials Act. The report notes that objects like toys, razors, and electrical cables contain valuable resources like gold, silver, copper, and lithium that are essential for sustainable technologies, including electric vehicles. Currently, Europe is the only continent that partially recovers critical raw materials from electronic waste, with 55% being recycled. The rest of the world has work to do in this area. Readers are encouraged to read the full publication for more information on the potential benefits of recycling critical raw materials.

TELF AG focuses on the potential linked to the recycling of some fundamental raw materials in a new publication.

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland - October 19, 2023 —

Entitled “TELF AG discusses the potential contained in the recycling of critical raw materials”, the publication also covers the precious opportunities linked to their recovery from waste, in particular from waste composed of electrical or electronic elements. 

The publication, in its initial parts, focuses on some of the main objectives of the global energy transition, highlighting the need for messages related to sustainability to penetrate deeply into people's consciences without influencing them only on a superficial level with social media content, newspapers or television specials dedicated to this specific topic.

The global transition towards sustainable energies must also materialize in a profound change in the individual consciences of people, who must, therefore, progressively come to the conclusion that it is not sufficient to understand the importance of sustainability and clean energies to complete the global energy transition in a happy way, but that we must also work personally to carry out concrete actions capable of leading people towards achieving the same objective.

One of these, according to TELF AG, is precisely linked to the recycling of raw materials. The publication mentions a study conducted by the UN Training and research institute, according to which the equivalent of 10 billion dollars of critical raw materials would be wasted every year. The latter are resources of fundamental importance for the manufacture of clean technologies, and in recent months, an updated list of them has also been published by the European Commission which, with its Critical Raw Materials Act, has set a really important emphasis on the fundamental role that these resources will play in the not too distant future.

But nowadays a large amount of these resources are wasted when objects such as toys, razors, electrical cables, and headphones are thrown into the garbage. All these objects contain large quantities of gold and silver, but also of some raw materials that are already proving to be of fundamental importance for the production of sustainable technologies, just like copper and lithium, which in the coming years will prove decisive for the construction of electric vehicles.

At the moment, the only continent that partially recovers critical raw materials from waste is Europe, where almost 55% of electronic waste is recycled, while the rest of the world still has a lot of work to do in this respect.

To find out more, readers are recommended to read the full publication.

About Us: About TELF AG: TELF AG is committed to leading the way in solutions and continually strives for innovation through its initiatives. It is a full-service international physical commodities trader with 30 years of experience in the industry. Headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland, the company operates globally, serving customers and providing solutions for commodities producers worldwide. TELF AG works in close partnership with producers to provide effective marketing, financing, and logistics solutions, enabling suppliers to focus on their core activities and access far-reaching markets wherever they may be. Its flexible, customer-focused approach allows TELF AG to create tailor-made solutions for each producer, facilitating long-term partnerships. Additionally, consumers widely recognize them for their operational excellence and reliability.

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