Steel and engineering groups are always looking for something new to do these days, and Thyssen AG of Duisburg reckons that it has spotted a lucrative gap in the market: it plans to take two partners on board and set up 30 German recycling centres for consumer electronic and computer products; Thyssen’s two partners in the project, Reuter reports, are mail order firm Quelle Grossversandhaus Schickedanz KG and Edelhoff AG & Co; the pilot plant cost some $300,000 to build, and it expects to dismantle up to 50,000 televisions for recycling a year; the German government is planning to introduce a law that will oblige electronics companies to collect their old products for recycling.
