Oman inaugurates its largest electronic recycling facility in Salalah: Operations have kicked off at Oman’s 20k ton per year e-waste recycling plant, The Evergreen Gulf Recycling Hub (EGRH), the Oman Daily Observer reports. Sparta Group’s ERS International serves as technical partners on the project.

More about the plant: EGRH is equipped to process and recycle a wide array of e-waste including computers, microwave ovens, ACs, cables, and motors. The facility uses AI-enabled technologies to sift and separate the e-waste collected for molecular recycling — a process that uses solvents, heat, enzymes, and even sound waves to purify or break down plastic waste.

Your data is safely destroyed: EGRH also has onsite shredding of hard drives to ensure that any data remaining on the devices is permanently destroyed. The plant will also work on recovering materials such as ferrous metals, aluminum, plastic and printed circuit boards (PCBs) from the e-waste.

Collection system in place: The hub has inked an agreement with the Port of Duqm Company to collect e-waste from their Muscat and Duqm offices, the news outlet notes, and has launched an application through which companies and individuals can request collection of their e-waste.

We knew this was coming: ERS International said it was launching Oman’s first e-waste recycling facility in 1Q 2023 last December. The company said at the time that it aims to process at least 500k pounds of discarded electronic devices in its first year of operation.