The Business Standard Azizu Recycling – turning e-waste into economic value

While most see piles of trash, a few see treasure. Amid Bangladesh's growing tech junk, it saw a business opportunity — turning discarded electronics into reusable raw materials for industries. The companies has invested around to establish a state-of-the-art recycling facilities, equipped to handle a wide range of e-waste materials. Global expertise to Bangladesh's e-waste sector, which experts estimate has a $500 million annual potential, since only a small portion of the country's e-waste is formally recycled. Offerings are e-waste collection and recycling, on-site disposal solutions, industrial waste reuse, hard disk and solid-state drive degaussing, and secure hard drive shredding. These metals are then melted down and transformed into ingots (a block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal), which are sold in the market as finished products. The recycled materials are later supplied to companies like Walton, Kiam, Poly Cables, re-rolling mills, and various plastic factories. There are e-waste recycling factories in Bangladesh, most of them do not carry out full-scale recycling. We outsource raw materials from them, melt them down in our own facility, produce finished goods, and supply them to the local market." Recycling should always follow environmentally friendly methods, which we strictly adhere to. However, the biggest challenge is sourcing quality raw materials. While corporate entities maintain quality standards in their e-waste, local collectors do not, making much of their scrap unusable for our facility."