WS 6 Developing a Business Plan for
Manual E-Waste Recycling
Objectives:
• Introduce different e-waste programs
• Analyse and discuss different framework conditions for e-waste dismantling facilities
Program:
3 short presentations:
• UNIDO e-waste approach
• SRI project
• South African E-Waste Alliance
Group Work and Discussion:
• Introduction Business Plan Calculation Tool
• Group Work: Calculation of revenues/ costs for dismantling facilities in 3 different
countries (Cambodia, Rio de Janeiro/ Brazil, Kampala/ Uganda)
• Discussion of the results: financial burdens for e-waste recycling facilities in these
countries; possible solutions
Business Plan Calculation Tool for Manual Dismantling Facilities
Required Recycling Fees
Plant-Layout
Planning
Options
Results
Input (Estimated Quantity/
Composition, Purchase Conditions)
Required
Input Data
Salaries and Annual
Working Hours
Sales Prices and
Disposal Costs
for Output-Fractions
Aquisition Prices
BPlan-Tool
Structure and
Features
Required Staff
Required Space
for Equipment and Machinery
General Price Levels
Profit & Loss-Forecast
Definitions/
Mod. Options
for the first 5 years of operation
Break-Even
Process Chain
Dismantling Level
Dismantling Output
for different appliance groups
and dismantling levels
Energy, Fuel, Taxes, Rental and
Credit-Costs
Provided
Process Data
Commercialisation of Fractions
Specific Correlations
Collection Strategy
regarding Storage, Space Requirements,
Collections Efforts, Dismantling Time, ...
Efficiency
2
Group Work: 3 Cases
Kampala/
Uganda
Phnom Penh/
Cambodia
Rio de Janeiro/
Brazil
 Landlocked country
 Access to the sea
 Access to Sea
 Mainly government
equipment
 Easy transport to
Vietnam and
Thailand
 Large area
 Huge storage of old
equipment
 Cooperatives active
in e-waste recycling
 Large refurbishment
 Salary wage at
sector
 Informal recycling at
medium level
a moderate level
 Informal sector
 Medium level
active in recycling
development status
 Very low salaries
Group Work: Same Input for all 3 Cases
Composition of input
Input
composition
Input
quantity
SHA kitchen (coffee machine)
0.0%
0 t/y
SHA cloths (iron)
0.0%
0 t/y
PC/ Server
20.0%
100 t/y
Notebook
2.0%
10 t/y
Printer/Scanner/Copier
5.0%
25 t/y
IT accessories (mix keyboard, mouse)
2.0%
10 t/y
Mobile phone (incl. recharger)
0.0%
0 t/y
CRT monitor
30.0%
150 t/y
FPD monitor
1.0%
5 t/y
Audio appliances (CD-/Radiorecorder)
3.0%
15 t/y
Video appliances (CD-/DVD-Player)
2.0%
10 t/y
CRT TV
30.0%
150 t/y
FPD TV
5.0%
25 t/y
Total
100.0%
500 t/y
**to carry the appliances from collection points to the dismantling plant
Percentage of e-waste delivered at the facility*
20%
Group Work
Description of assignment for Group Work:
• Open the xls-file for the assigned case (Rio, Kampala or Phnom Penh) and go to the
sheet named “0_WRF2015_Workshop”
• Estimate adequate salaries and non-wage labour costs (taxes, NSSF etc.) based on your
experience
• Estimate prices to purchase device to be
• paid to the customer once the device is handed in
• charged to the customer once the device is handed in
• Verify the selected downstream option for the listed fractions (especially for steel,
aluminium, copper, PWBs, plastics and CRT-glass)!
• Verify achievable revenues for the sales of fractions/ disposal cost to be paid for certain
fractions!
Key questions to be discussed within the Group:
• What would be the most adequate dismantling level for the selected case?
• Which cost drivers are the most serious burdens to gain a financial balance?
• In case, no financial balance could be achieved in any scenario: Which elements would
need to be adapted to reach a positive financial balance?
Calculation Results
USD/a
Adequate
Dismantling Level
Net Revenues
Operational Costs
Operating Results
General Conditions
Kampala/
Uganda
Rio de Janeiro/
Brazil
Phnom Penh/
Cambodia
Calculation Results
Kampala/
Uganda
Rio de Janeiro/
Brazil
Phnom Penh/
Cambodia
C
B
C
Net Revenues
21,000
184,000
178,000
Operational Costs
-74,000
-140,000
-60,000
Operating Results
-53,000
44,000
118,000
• Missing downstream
options in the region
• Good sales conditions
for output fractions
• Good sales conditions
for output fractions
• High purchase prices
to get the e-waste
• No purchase prices
considered
• Moderate transport
and disposal costs
• High transport and
disposal costs
• Moderate transport
and disposal costs
• Moderate purchase
prices
• Low operational costs
• Moderate
operational costs
• Most serious burden:
Purchase of e-waste
USD/a
Adequate
Dismantling Level
General Conditions
• Most serious burden:
Disposal of CRT-glass
• Environmental sound
e-waste recycling
without recycling fees
not possible