The metallurgical, energy and plastics processing flowsheet that can process the multitude of metals, alloys, functional materials and plastics in an end-of-life product. It covers steel, stainless steel, copper, lead, tin zinc, aluminum and magnesium as carrier metal metallurgical infrastructure as well as plastics recycling and energy recovery (note that all minor/critical/scarce metals are included).

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... means feeding the whole Fairphone 2 into a high temperature metallurgical reactor and recovering the materials mainly as metals, alloys and inorganic compounds. This is just the first step --the rest of the processes after the reactor are displayed in Figure 2. ...