SENS eRecycling and partners track disposal of heat pumps on
SENS eRecycling, the Swiss Building Climate Association and the Swiss Heat Pump Association are working together for the sustainable disposal of heat pumps. Refrigerants that are harmful to the climate are professionally destroyed and valuable raw materials are recycled.
SENS eRecyling has developed a sustainable solution for the disposal of heat pumps in cooperation with the Swiss Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Technology ( GebäudeKlima Schweiz ) and the Swiss Heat Pump Association. Heat pumps that have reached the end of their service life and have been returned to the installer, manufacturer or importer are collected by SENS eRecyling and taken to recycling companies that have the necessary permits and a SENS licence to process such appliances. There, the climate-damaging refrigerant is removed from the heat pumps and professionally destroyed. Raw materials such as metals and plastics are recycled and returned to the raw material cycle.
SENS eRecycling announced in a press release that the new industry solution will be launched on 1 July. The model will be financed from the advance recycling fee that accrues when a heat pump is purchased. “Many manufacturers and importers see the new industry solution as a way to fulfil their obligation to take back discarded heat pumps in an efficient and uncomplicated way,” SENS eRecycling managing director Pasqual Zopp is quoted as saying in the press release.
According to Konrad Imbach, managing director of GebäudeKlima Schweiz, the manufacturers and importers of heat pumps who have already joined the industry solution have a market share of 70 to 80 per cent. Stephan Peterhans, managing director of the Swiss Heat Pump Association, is convinced that almost all of the other companies in the sector will also decide to join by the end of the year.