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Recycling Council of Ontario recognizes GEEP.


Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP GEEP Groupe pour l’Etude et l’Enseignement de la Population
GEEP Group of Experts on Effects of Pollutants
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), headquartered in Barrie, Ontario For the electoral district, see .

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, was presented with a silver award for Waste Diversion Program A diversion program in the criminal justice system is a program run by a district attorney's office designed to enable offenders of criminal law (usually minor offenses) to avoid criminal charges [1][2].  Operator at this year's Ontario Waste Minimization Awards held recently in Toronto. The Recycling Council of Ontario presents the annual award.

GEEP has introduced technology known as the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  I system, which is in full production at its Barrie facility.

With ERP I, non-disassembled electric and electronic products are shredded by a heavy-duty crusher. Coarse ferrous and nonferrous parts are taken out automatically, while hand-picking stations are used to remove additional valuable fractions, such as motors, transformers, stainless steel stainless steel: see steel.
stainless steel

Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat.
 parts and circuit boards.

Many of these electronic products contain considerable quantities of mixed plastics, which are separated for use in a "de-polymerization" process that the company will introduce in the first quarter of 2007 at the Barrie location under the name NanoFuels Solutions Inc.

According to GEEP, its ERP I recycling plant is designed to recycle about 6,000 pounds of electric and electronic scrap per hour at a low cost.

More information about Global Electric Electronic Processing is available online at www.geepinc.com.
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Title Annotation:ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
Publication:Recycling Today
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Dec 1, 2006
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