Electronics purchase (WEEE)

Extra class

Mostly server boards with many chips and gold-plated contacts.

Without aluminium heat sinks, batteries and iron parts.

Class 1

Older motherboards with a large processor, graphics cards etc.

Without aluminium heat sinks, batteries and iron parts.

Class 2

Newer motherboards with a smaller processor, modem boards etc.

Without aluminium heat sinks, batteries and iron parts.

Class 3

Older TV boards and power-supply boards with heavy, lower-value components such as transformers, capacitors, heat sinks …

DVD drives

Optical drives of all sizes, complete.

Hard disks

HDD hard disks of all sizes, complete.

Power supplies

Power supplies of all sizes, with or without cables.

RAM – gold

All kinds of RAM modules with gold-plated contacts.

Without aluminium housing.

RAM – silver

All kinds of RAM modules with silver-plated contacts.

Without aluminium housing.

Plastic processors

Green or brown, without a copper plate on the back.

Black plastic processors

Black, without a copper plate on the back.

Ceramic processors

With gold pins, without a copper plate on the back.

Ceramic processors without pins

Server-board processors, usually much heavier.

Processors with copper plate

P4 / Celeron / C2D – with or without pins, all sizes.

Chips

All sizes.

Phones

Mobile phones only.

Without batteries!

Aluminium cables

All aluminium computer cables.

Electric motors

Stators, rotors, complete motors, transformers of all sizes.

Aluminium heat sinks with iron brackets

With metal brackets, copper core, screws.

Complete computers

Complete desktop computers with all components (motherboard, disk, RAM, processor, graphics card …). Laptops without batteries.