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Abstract Waste refrigerator is the most large amount of item being recycled and the recycling process is the most complicated in WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) because refrigerator is biggest product and consists of various parts and materialssuch as ferrous, non-ferrous, and plastics. Recently, recycling process of waste refrigerator has been being more complex sincelarge capacity 2 door refrigerators and standing Kimchi refrigerators with various material are distributed on custom market. Inaddition, recycling of valuable resource from waste refrigerator is mandatory by WEEEs recycling legislation; therefore, highefficiency recycling enough for economic and environment-friendly recovery of valuable resource through present technical sit-uation analysis and comparison of recycling technologies of waste refrigerator with advanced country.Key words : WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), waste refrigerator, dismantling process, shredding/separationprocess, recycling * Received : January 17, 2013·Revised : March 5, 2013·Accepted : April 15, 2013Corresponding Author : Hyunseok Yang (E-mail : hsyang@iae.re.kr)Advanced Materials & Processing Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering, 175-28, Goan-ro 51beon-gil, Baegam-myeon,Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 449-863, KOREATel : +82-31-330-7487 / Fax : +82-31-330-7116ⓒThe Korean Institute of Resources Recycling. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the termsof the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permitsunrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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