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AS 5377:2022
[Current]Management of electrical and electronic equipment for re-use or recycling
AS 5377:2021 sets out principles and minimum requirements for the safe and environmentally sound collection and storage, transport, preparation for re-use and treatment of electrical and electronic equipment (including components, consumables and parts thereof) designed for a supply voltage not exceeding 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. Data security, traceability for substances of concern, risk management and quality management are also covered.
Published: 21/01/2022
Pages: 78
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope, application and general requirements
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.3 Normative references
1.4 Terms and definitions
1.5 Abbreviations
1.6 Identifying legal and other requirements
1.7 Health, safety and environmental management
1.7.1 General
1.7.2 Risk assessment and management
1.7.2.1 General
1.7.2.2 Hierarchy of controls
1.7.3 Workplace monitoring
1.7.4 Products accepted
1.8 Emergency response and business continuity
1.9 Business closure plan
1.10 Competency
1.11 Task-related information
1.12 Documented information
1.13 Data security
1.13.1 General
1.13.2 Public collection information
1.13.3 Customer agreements
1.13.4 Security measures
1.13.5 Data destruction
1.14 Waste management hierarchy
1.15 Management system
2 Collection and storage
2.1 Aim of section
2.2 Signage and information
2.3 Areas accessible by the public
2.4 Storage and handling
2.4.1 General
2.4.2 Storage infrastructure
2.4.3 Consolidation
2.4.4 Maintain physical integrity
2.4.5 Storage and handling requirements
2.5 Broken, dumped and residual material
2.6 Traceability records
3 Preparation for re-use
3.1 Aim of section
3.2 Quality management system
3.3 Procedures for an EEE re-use program
3.3.1 General
3.3.2 Direct re-use
3.3.3 Repair and refurbishment
3.3.4 Harvesting of assemblies, components and parts
3.3.5 Failed, defective or discarded assets
3.4 Data security
3.5 Packaging and labelling
3.6 Transboundary transport records
3.6.1 Transport for direct re-use
3.6.2 Transport for functionality testing or repair or refurbishment
3.7 Traceability records
3.8 Provision of information to customers
4 Treatment
4.1 Aim of section
4.2 General
4.3 Inbound assessment and receipt
4.4 Storage and handling
4.4.1 General
4.4.2 Substances of concern
4.5 Treatment procedures
4.5.1 Removal of components
4.5.2 Processing
4.5.2.1 Manual and mechanical processing
4.5.2.2 Processing other than by manual and mechanical processing
4.5.3 Management of substances of concern
4.5.4 Downstream processing and disposal
4.6 Traceability records
4.7 Landfill diversion and recovery rates
5 Transport
5.1 Aim of section
5.2 Transport procedures
5.2.1 Establish processes for safe transport
5.2.2 Documentation review
5.2.3 Preserving chain of custody
5.2.4 Health and safety requirements
5.2.5 Emergency response
5.2.6 Environmental management
5.3 Transporting EEE destined for re-use
5.4 Documented information
5.5 Transport records
6 Traceability and due diligence for substances of concern
6.1 Aim of section
6.2 Evaluation, selection and monitoring of downstream processors
6.2.1 Procedure for selecting downstream processors
6.2.2 Criteria for selecting the downstream processors
6.3 Evaluation of downstream processors
6.4 Traceability controls and monitoring
6.4.1 Tracking controls
6.4.2 Shipment labelling for substances of concern
6.5 Traceability documentation and records
6.6 Value chain for movement of substances of concern
6.7 Facilitate transparency and traceability
Appendix A
A.1 General
A.2 Temperature exchange equipment
A.3 Screens, monitors and equipment containing displays
A.4 Lamps
A.5 Large equipment
A.6 Small equipment
A.7 Small IT and telecommunication equipment
Appendix B
B.1 Hazards
B.1.1 General
B.1.2 Hazardous substances
B.1.3 Physical hazards
B.1.4 Electrical hazards
B.1.5 Fire hazards
B.1.6 Collection unit and pallet hazards
B.1.7 Collection truck hazards
B.1.8 Environmental hazards
B.2 Handling
B.2.1 General
B.2.2 EEE containing hazardous substances
Appendix C
C.1 General
C.2 Applicable electrical safety standards
Appendix D
D.1 General
D.2 Categories of removal
D.3 CRT glass
D.4 Mercury contained in EEE
D.5 Batteries and accumulators
D.6 Capacitors
D.7 Printed circuit boards
D.8 Volatile fluorocarbons and volatile hydrocarbons
D.9 Polychlorinated biphenyls
D.10 Plastics containing halogenated flame retardants
D.11 Photovoltaic panels
D.12 Flat panel displays
D.13 Radioactive materials
D.14 Asbestos
D.15 Refractory ceramic fibres
D.16 Engineered nanomaterials
D.17 Beryllium
D.18 Other substances
Appendix E
E.1 General
E.2 Calculation
E.2.1 General
E.2.2 Step 1: Define the boundary and scope
E.2.3 Step 2: Perform mass balance
E.2.4 Step 3: Output material fractions and components
E.2.5 Step 4: Treatment facility processing losses and waste disposal
E.2.6 Step 5: Downstream material flows and yields
E.2.7 Documentation
Bibliography
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