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Title: Collaborative Models in Electronics Recycling


1
Collaborative Models in Electronics Recycling
International Symposium on Electronics
Environment May 16, 2005
  • Michael Alexander
  • Senior Research Associate
  • National Recycling Coalition

2
No Computer Should Go to Waste
Dell
/
NRC
Partnership
3
No Computer Should Go to Waste Programs 2004/2005
  • 40 grants for computer collection events
  • Technical assistance program for grantees
  • How-to training workshops and Collection Events

4
Workshop Collection Events 2004
  • Two-day event
  • First day classroom training
  • Second day collection event
  • Stanford, CA
  • Austin, TX
  • San Francisco, CA

Over 1000 cars dropped off approximately 50 tons
of computer equipment at Stanford University.
5
Grant Recipients 2004/2005
  • Grant Program Spring 04
  • 10,000 Each
  • Anchorage, AK
  • San Ramon, CA
  • Washington, DC
  • Atlanta, GA 
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Jackson, MI
  • Santa Fe, NM
  • Albany, NY
  • State College, PA
  • Columbia, SC
  • Knoxville, TN
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Grant Program Fall 04
  • 10,000 Each
  • Mobile, AL
  • Tucson, AZ
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Aurora, CO
  • Tallahassee, FL
  • Kailua-Kona County, HI
  • Oak Park, HI
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • Baton Rouge, LA
  • Berkshire, MA
  • Baltimore, MD
  • St. Louis, MO 
  • Bozeman, MT
  • Bergen County, NJ
  • Albuquerque, NM
  • Onondaga County, NY
  • Chautauqua County, NY
  • Two Canadian Grants
  • Spring 05
  • Cool to Be Canadian - Montreal
  • Regional District of Okanagan-Smilkameen
  • 3 Higher Education Grants
  • Spring 05
  • Miami-Dade College
  • University of Colorado - Boulder
  • University California San Francisco

New York City 20,000 Total Collection Events in
all 5 Boroughs Oct. 04 Queens Bronx Manhattan
Brooklyn Staten Island
Project Totals
Grants Spring 04
120,000
Grants Fall 04
200,000
HED Grants
30,000
Canadian Grants
20,000
New York City
20,000
GRAND TOTAL
390,000
6
Dell Sponsored Computer Recycling Events 2004-05
7
NRC Grantee Training
  • Vendor Selection Navigating Environmental,
    Economic and Ethical Issues
  • Innovative Fundraising and Promotion Strategies
  • Nuts and Bolts of Collection Event Logistics

8
One-Day Computer Recycling Events
9
Why Hold a Computer Recycling Event?
  • One day events are a date, not a marriage.
    Establish your collections and you can leverage
    vendor practices, dictate higher standards.
  • The longer monitors and computers are stored, the
    less social (digital divide) and economic value
    they have.
  • Reuse markets for CRTs are strong today, but in 2
    years they may dive.
  • Residents dont stop generating electronic waste
    while advocates ponder policy.
  • PCs contain potentially toxic materials.

Source American Retroworks, from Grantee Training
10
What to avoid in computer recycling events
Unprocessed Stockpiles
Source Cascade Asset Management, from Grantee
Training
11
NRC Grantee Training Environment/Safety Concerns
  • Tour their facility!! Contact their processors!
  • Signs of Concern
  • Outside storage, too much inventory
  • Look into dumpsters whats being thrown out
  • Items not labeled facility dirty, unorganized
  • Whole, untested units being shipped out
  • Positive Signs
  • Facility is safe and secure
  • They can show you shipping documents/manifests
    for commodity and equipment shipments
  • Hazardous materials are segregated and labeled
    (batteries)

Source Cascade Asset Management, from Grantee
Training
12
What to avoid in computer recycling events
Toxics Along for the Ride
13
The Bad
Source America Retroworks, from Grantee Training
14
The Good and the Ugly
Copper extracted by hand
Monitor Refurbishing Factory
Source America Retroworks, from Grantee Training
15
The worst recycling is environmentally better
than the best mining

Source American Retroworks, from Grantee Training
16
Electronics Recycling vs. Mining
  • World demand for copper, gold, aluminum, lead,
    plastic and steel expands daily.
  • E-Scrap is 300 richer in copper and other metals
    than mined ore.
  • Recycling produces a fraction of the pollution
    from mining. Hard rock mining produces 45 of all
    toxics produced by all USA industries.
  • Electronics metal mining contributes to gorilla
    and orangutan extinction.
  • USGS At 1990 rate of consumption, copper
    reserves will be exhausted this century Ocean
    mining will be the primary source of copper in
    our lifetimes.
  • 14/15 largest Superfund sites are copper mines
  • Gold mining releases more mercury into the
    environment than mercury production and disposal
    combined.

Source American Retroworks, from Grantee Training
17
NRC Grantee TrainingQuestion for Vendor on
Exports
  • Ask for leaded glass recycling records
  • Ask for documentation of markets for printed
    circuit board recycling
  • Look at employees or capital investment per ton

Source American Retroworks, from Grantee Training
18
Spring 04 Results
  • Anchorage, AK 306 tons
  • San Ramon, CA 36 tons
  • Washington, DC 40 tons
  • Atlanta, GA  7 tons
  • Kansas City, MO 10 tons
  • Jackson, MI 35 tons
  • Santa Fe, NM 39 tons
  • Albany, NY 70 tons
  • State College, PA 110 tons
  • Columbia, SC 103 tons
  • Knoxville, TN 26 tons
  • Milwaukee, WI 89 tons

Total Tonnage Collected 872 tons Average Per
Event 73 tons
19
Fall 04 Results
  • Tucson, AZ 26 Tons
  • Kailua-Kona County, HI 36 Tons
  • Oak Park, HI 49 Tons
  • Indianapolis, IN 29 Tons
  • Boone County, KY 25 Tons
  • Baton Rouge, LA 72 Tons
  • Berkshire, MA 27 Tons
  • Baltimore, MD 12 Tons
  • Bozeman, MT 44 Tons
  • Bergen County, NJ 42 Tons
  • Onondaga County, NY 51 Tons
  • Chautauqua County, NY 23 Tons
  • State of Rhode Island 18 Tons

Total Tonnage Collected 454 tons Average Per
Event 32 tons
20
Direct Environmental Benefits of Dell/NRC
Computer Recycling Events
  • Saved enough energy to power and heat nearly 600
    household for one year.
  • Reduced greenhouse gases at an amount equivalent
    to taking 800 cars off the road for one year.

21
NRCs Web-Based Resource Center for Computer
Collection Events
  • Best Practices Guide
  • Downloadable camera ready press and promotional
    materials
  • Examples of television and radio ads
  • Model RFPs and service contracts
  • Instructional PowerPoint presentations on such
    issues as vendor selection
  • Comprehensive national database of electronic
    recyclers and reuse options

22
Lessons Learned from 40 Collection Events
  • Seed from OEM leverages significant public and
    private funding
  • With intensive training, event coordinators are
    quick studies
  • One-day collection events are convenient for
    consumers
  • Each community is different, and collection
    events need to be uniquely tailored
  • Collection events are a highly effective short
    term solution to e-scrap recycling

23
National Recycling Coalition Congress Expo
24
Contact
Michael Alexander Senior Research
Associate National Recycling Coalition MichaelA_at_n
rc-recycle.org P. 802-254-3338 WWW.NRC-RECYCLE.ORG
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