TYBET OKO collects, treats and recycles end-of-life telecom equipment for operators across the Europe. We operate under Environmental Permit No. 199 of 09.10.2020, last revised on 22.12.2025 by the Ilfov County Environmental Protection Directorate (Romania). Our plant in Șindrilița, near Bucharest, runs seven treatment lines, and every batch is traceable from the operator’s warehouse to the final output fractions.

Equipment we take over

Under Annex IV to Directive 2012/19/EU, telecom equipment falls into category 6, “small IT and telecommunication equipment”, or category 4 when any external dimension exceeds 50 cm. We take over:

• Customer premises equipment (CPE): routers, xDSL and DOCSIS modems, ONT/GPON terminals, set-top boxes and decoders, landline phones, Wi-Fi adapters;
• Network and core equipment: switches, core routers, DSLAMs, OLTs, line cards, servers and racks;
• Radio equipment: BTS units, RRUs and antennas;
• Accessories: power supplies, remote controls, data and power cables;
• UPS batteries and accumulators, collected and treated separately.

Permitted waste codes for this stream, under the European List of Waste (Decision 2000/532/EC):

Treatment process

Treatment complies with Annexes VII and VIII to Directive 2012/19/EU (transposed by Romanian Government Emergency Ordinance No. 5/2015), EN 50625-1:2014, the CLC/TS 50625 series and the WEEELABEX requirements. Our equipment and processes follow the best available techniques (BAT) for waste treatment set out in the Best Available Techniques Reference Document for Waste Treatment (WT BREF). The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre drew it up under Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions, and the BAT conclusions are laid down in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1147. In practice, this means sorting and composition analysis on reception, dust capture during shredding and spraying with recirculated water, all on impermeable concrete platforms.

1. If you have no staff available, our team packs and loads the equipment at your warehouse. Transport runs on our own fleet. Cross-border shipments follow Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 on shipments of waste, through the DIWASS electronic system.
2. Each batch is weighed on calibrated scales, inventoried by type and model, and labelled.
3. Depollution and manual dismantling (Line 1). At six workstations we remove batteries, accumulators and capacitors, in line with CLC/TS 50625-3-1. Printed circuit boards, housings and cables are separated by hand, and fraction composition is checked with a handheld XRF analyser.
4. Primary mechanical treatment (Line 2). Housings and residual fractions are shredded with Komptech Terminator and Rubble Master RM 60 shredders, then magnetically separated and screened in trommels.
5. Secondary mechanical treatment (Line 3). Fractions pass through a mill, a zig-zag air separator, two eddy current separators and an optical sorter. The output is ferrous, aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel and plastic concentrates.
6. Cables (Line 4). Cables are granulated and copper is separated from the insulation.
7. Non-ferrous and precious metals (Line 6). Fine copper and aluminum fractions are separated in a wet process. Printed circuit boards go to licensed refineries to recover gold, silver, palladium and copper. TYBET OKO holds Authorisation No. 0012070/14.04.2022 for operations with precious metals.

Operation R4 and end-of-waste status

Ferrous, aluminium and copper fractions are recovered through operation R4, “recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds”, listed in Annex II to Directive 2008/98/EC. Fractions sent to other lines or permitted facilities are handled under operations R11 and R12. End-of-waste status follows Council Regulation (EU) No 333/2011 for iron, steel and aluminium scrap, and Commission Regulation (EU) No 715/2013 for copper scrap.

For category 6, Annex V to Directive 2012/19/EU sets a recovery target of 75% and a target of 55% prepared for re-use and recycled. We report both rates for every batch.

Secure destruction (ITAD)

Routers, modems and set-top boxes store configuration files, Wi-Fi credentials, subscriber data and proprietary firmware in flash memory. When this equipment must never return to circulation, we provide complete, certified destruction together with Kaputt Sekuro, a company of the same group.

In July 2026, CERTIND audited Kaputt Sekuro’s process for the secure destruction of confidential documents and of devices holding confidential or sensitive data. The audit was against ISO/IEC 21964-2:2018, the international version of DIN 66399. Audit report No. 29030 P of 16.07.2026 found no nonconformities and rates the process at:

• Protection class 3, the highest in the standard, for strictly confidential and secret data;
• Material categories P-7, F-6, O-6, T-7, H-6 and E-6. Category E covers electronic data carriers, such as the flash memory in routers, modems and set-top boxes.

Kaputt Sekuro also runs an integrated management system certified by CERTIND to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018, and holds Environmental Permit No. 80 of 20.04.2026, with an irreversible destruction capacity of 984 tonnes per year. For batches located in Romania, destruction can also take place on the client’s premises, with mobile shredders. The certificate of destruction is the supporting document for writing the equipment off your records.

For electronic memory, the procedures are aligned with NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2, Guidelines for Media Sanitization, using the “Destroy” method.

How we work:

1. Transport in sealed containers, with a documented chain of custody.
2. Inventory by serial number on reception.
3. Mechanical destruction by shredding, to a particle size that makes data recovery impossible.
4. On request, destruction witnessed by your representative or recorded on video.
5. Certificate of destruction per batch, listing serial numbers.
6. Recycling of the resulting fractions through operation R4. No component is harvested for re-use.

Transaction economics. Secure destruction changes the value of the batch. For standard recycling, we pay an indicative €1,800 per tonne of telecom equipment. For recycling with secure ITAD destruction, we pay an indicative €800 per tonne. The final price depends on batch composition, quantity and pick-up location.

Governance and ESG

No equipment enters the second-hand market without the client’s written consent, which keeps it out of the grey and black market. The chain of custody is documented at every stage. TYBET OKO runs an integrated management system certified by CERTIND to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018. Our data supports the client’s circular-economy disclosures under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464 and the ESRS E5 standard.

Track record

In August 2026, we took over 77.9 tonnes of CPE in four days from one of the largest cable telecom operators in Poland. We handled packaging, loading, international transport and full reporting.

Besides our experience on the local market, we also operate on several international markets, such as France, the Netherlands and Germany, with over 800 tonnes in total in 2026 alone.