Cables can be shredded before being sent to specialised industries

Cables can be shredded before being sent to specialised industries or burned in a facility where every measure is taken to prevent the formation of harmful substances, such as chlorinated dibenzofurans and dibenzodioxins. Those cables (or cable residue) can be recovered by industries specializing in the separation of copper wires from their plastic sheaths. These industries usually use various physical means to separate these materials in order to obtain perfectly homogeneous pieces of copper and plastics.