ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Objectives:

Our environmental objective is to through recycling in Ireland help begin to tackle the underlying environmental issues that cause additional problems for both Ireland and the world. In Ireland alone, it is estimated that 2 million mobile phones will be replaced this year, accounting for 2,000 tons of waste. Kavanagh Environmental works to keep mobile phones out of landfills and through its innovative recycling mobile phones programs collects more than 10,000 mobile phones every month.

Kavanagh Environmental are the leading Mobile Phone and other small electronic device recycling company in Ireland.  The primary driver has been the introduction of the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive 2002/96/EC. We operate under a “Waste Permit” (WFP-DS-08-0003-01) issued by South Dublin County Council www.sdcc.ie.

Kavanagh Environmental are also members of both WEEE Ireland www.weeeireland.ie (Ref No: KAV100) and the WEEE Register Society www.weeeregister.ie (Reg No IE 01083 WB).

WEEE Legislation:

The WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC is an EU Directive founded on the principle of "Producer Responsibility" and its general objectives are:

• to prevent waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and to promote the reuse, recycling and recovery of such wastes
• to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers, distributors and consumers and in particular those operators directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

Using the WEEE directive guidelines and the waste hierarchy pyramid Kavanagh Environmental has set itself the following targets for the phones and accessories received:

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Kavanagh Environmental carry out extensive testing, grading and repairing of the collected or donated mobile phones. These processes result in us obtaining a very high reuse rate of above 80%. 

The following testing and grading processes are carried out and recorded for each phone received:

• Physical Inspection
• LCD Inspection
• Power On Test (Power on and Charging)
• Data Cleanse
• Brand Removal (Network phones only)
• Functional Test (Keypad, Speaker, Reception, Ringer)
• Battery Test
• Repair
• Refurbishment

Depending on results of tests they will be divided into the following categories for resale, repair or disposal.

1. Working units suitable for reuse and or refurbishment.
2. Faulty units suitable for repair and reuse.
3. Units unsuitable for reuse (too old, DECT or BER (beyond economical repair) but suitable for recycling.
4. Units/Accessories not suitable for recycling to be safely disposed in authorised licensed facilities only.

Kavanagh Environmental are the only Irish mobile phone recycling business that also prepares for both reuse or recycling the following accessories:

• Chargers (both mains & car)
• Headsets (plug in and Bluetooth)
• Batteries (all types)
• Plastics
• Manuals
• Packaging

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At Kavanagh Environmental, corporate social responsibility is innate to our business resulting in a profitable company with hugely positive societal and environmental impacts. Our strategy is based around four pillars of CSR activity: environment, social inclusion, community and staff wellbeing.

WEEE Ireland - our reference number KAV100. See www.weeeireland.ie for further details.

WEEE Register Society Ltd - Registration Number: IE 01083. See www.weeeregister.ie for further details.

South Dublin County Council - Waste Permit - Click here to download

SDCC WEEE Certificate - See Downloads Section

Kavanagh Environmental promotes the use of Co2 Offsets to help negate both personal and small business CO2 omissions. All CO2 Offset programmes will be Irish based with the environment in Ireland benefiting.
Please see: www.emissionzero.ie