A Stepping Stone for Shared Responsibility

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A Stepping Stone for Shared Responsibility

• Diana Gibson,
• Manager Sustainable Products and Services

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HOUSEHOLDS AND COMPUTERS

• By 2013 1.77m PCs per year will be turned off
  and ready for disposal.
• Households are acquiring IT equipment twice as
  fast as they are disposing of it.
• 42 of all electronic and electrical equipment
  in the home is IT related.
• 38.4 million pieces or an average of 9.2 pieces
  per household
• 1 in 5 computers in households are non branded
• IPSOS Household E waste 2005 Newsletter

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Co-reg Framework for Product Stewardship
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Hewlett Packard
Lexmark
Epsom
Canon
Fujitsu
Dell
Fuji- Xerox
IBM
Sims E
TIC Group
Lenovo
Apple
Maturity Phase
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• Objectives
• Increased industry ownership of the problem
• Industry learning - all processes, systems and
  mechanisms required to collect and process
  unwanted end of life computers
• inform development of a commercially viable and
  sustainable industry driven model
• Inform introduction of the proposed National
  Co-regulatory Framework for computers

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Camberwell

• 475t in 18 months

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Camberwell

• 2588.75t eCO2

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Camberwell

• 1.27/kg
• Processing
• Logistics
• Infrastructure
• Promotions

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Camberwell July 06 August 07
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Equipment Type
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Materials
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98 of materials recovered
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98 of materials recovered
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Age of Equipment
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What motivated use of the service?
Excludes those making multiple responses
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Frequency of use of service?
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Alternate disposal routes
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Source of Equipment
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Waste Profile
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Waste Profile

• 51 of products collected - AIIA members.
• 71 of products - major/recognised brands.
• 110 different brands represented in the waste
  stream
• 15 - more than 1 of waste stream.
• Top 7 (incl. White Boxes _at_ 8) -60 of waste.
• Assessment of sub-components (motherboard, CD Rom
  etc) - 5 unknowns and 1 orphaned.

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2006 Victorian Government ESAS
COMMITMENT

• All participating brands paying for own product
• Govt 2m - non participants, whiteboxes and
  orphans
• Joint promotions fund
• Promotions and co-ordination project managed out
  of AIIA
• E waste recycling contracts managed by
  Sustainability Victoria
• AIIA/Brands/ Multi Media Victoria and
  Sustainability Victoria Advisory group

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Proposed and Operational Sites
Darebin
Moonee Valley
Camberwell
Sth East Suburbs
Wodonga
Bendigo
Ballarat
Traralgon
Geelong
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Post Government Funded Byteback

• Nine Byteback sites in Victoria
• AIIA and participants
• responsible for ALL EQUIPMENT COLLECTED