Electronics Recycling: Future Challenges and Trends an OEM Perspective

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Electronics Recycling Future Challenges and
Trends an OEM Perspective
Mark Newton Dell Sustainability
Dell Believes No Computer Should Go To Waste Keep
environmentally sensitive materials out of
landfills, enable materials to be recycled or
reused,
and help conserve natural
resources.
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Challenges Trends

• Consistent, harmonized regulatory and standards
  framework
• Cost effective, design incentives
• Local concerns
• Dont take my job away
• Global rollout
• Emerging capabilities, trans-boundary
  restrictions
• Transparency
• Procedural and Financial
• Return Rate
• Incentives and System Capacity

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Challenges Trends

• Logistics
• Transportation costs and carbon impact
• Trans-boundary restrictions
• Disincentive for infrastructure development?
• Product chemical content
• Wild card Mercury?
• Close loop
• Chemical content, availability
• Data destruction
• Liability and consumer awareness