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Title: Why Responsible Recycling is Good Business


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Why Responsible Recycling is Good Business
Workshop on E-waste Recycling and Refurbishing
Environmentally Sound Management
Practices Perspectives on key drivers for
implementing ESM
  • Barbara Kyle
  • Electronics TakeBack Coalition

Guadalajara, MexicoFebruary 1516
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Topics
  • E-waste recycling challenges
  • What happens when e-waste isnt managed
    responsibly
  • Why ESM is good business for recyclers
  • Recycler certification

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About the Electronics TakeBack Coalition
  • Who We Are National coalition of environmental
    and consumer organizations working on electronic
    waste issues
  • What We Do We promote green design and
    responsible recycling in the electronics industry
  • Promote state and federal legislation
  • Public pressure on the industry to create and
    improve TakeBack and recycling programs
  • Promote green purchasing guidelines and efforts
    with institutional buyers
  • Expose problems with recyclers, such as exporting
    e-waste
  • Promote responsible recyclers

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Electronic Waste is Toxic Waste
  • Toxics in electronics
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Brominated Flame Retardants
  • Cadmium
  • PVC
  • Arsenic

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Toxics In, Toxics Out
  • Toxics in e-waste can harm workers communities
  • Toxics make it harder to recycle e-waste (more
    expensive to do it safely)
  • Many recyclers choose to export e-waste to
    developing countries instead of paying to manage
    them safely
  • Processing should occur only where there is
    adequate infrastructure to manage the toxics.

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Where does our e-waste go?
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50 to 100 containers of e-waste arrive in Hong
Kong daily
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Guiyu, China
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Object of the presentation
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Lagos, Nigeria
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Accra, Ghana
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Accra, Ghana
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Key Question Who pays?
  • There is always a cost for handling toxic e-waste
  • Who will pay for it?
  • Option 1 We externalize the costs onto the
    workers and communities in developing countries
    with cheap labor and weak laws

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The word is out on e-waste dumping
  • Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
  • 60 Minutes Follows America's Toxic Electronic
    Waste As It Is Illegally Shipped To Become
    China's Dirty Secret

Ghana Digital Dumping Ground
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Key Question Who Pays?
  • Option 2Customers who BUY and USE the products
    pay for responsible recycling
  • Cost is included in the price of the product
    Cost Internalization (not an added fee)

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Will the customer pay for responsible recycling?
  • Producer Responsibility- The manufacturer adds
    the cost of recycling into the price, and then
    takes back its products when customers are done
    with them.- The manufacturer recycles
    RESPONSIBLY
  • In the U.S., and Canada, we are passing
    state/provincial laws requiring producer
    responsibility for e-waste (mostly for consumer
    products)

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Manufacturers want responsible recycling
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  • Samsung We've partnered directly with respected
    take-back and recycling companies that do not
    incinerate, send to solid waste landfill, or
    export toxic waste (defined in a manner
    consistent with the commonly accepted definition
    of hazardous electronic waste) to developing
    countries. Link
  • SONY Sony will continue to conduct electronics
    recycling programs transparently and in accord
    with rigorous environmental and worker safety
    standards. Additionally, we will adhere to
    measures to prevent the export of hazardous
    e-waste to developing countries and support the
    development of federal legislation to ban the
    illegal export of hazardous electronic waste to
    developing nations. Link
  • Apple Nothing is shipped overseas for recycling
    or disposal. Our recyclers must comply with all
    applicable health and safety laws, and Apple does
    not allow the use of prison labor at any stage of
    the recycling process. Nor do we allow the
    disposal of hazardous electronic waste in
    solid-waste landfills or incinerators. Link

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Corporate customers want responsible recycling
  • In the U.S., corporations are increasingly
    concerned about what happens to their old
    electronics
  • Legal liability and privacy concerns about data
    on hard drives
  • Concerns about their old products causing harm in
    communities around the globe
  • Corporations require ESM language in contracts
    with recyclers

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Voluntary Standards and ESM
  • Why voluntary recycling standards and
    certification?
  • Standards cover areas ignored by the laws such
    as worker protections, export (in USA)
  • Certification to high standards makes it easy for
    customers to know a recycler is following ESM
    practices
  • Certification shows compliance with laws
    (especially where enforcement is not strong)
  • Certification is a visible label (not just legal
    compliance)

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Certifications Show Green Matters
  • Certified Fair Trade in 2007 topped 2.5 billion
    in sales, providing wide benefits to more than 1
    million farm families growing at 40 per year.
  • FSC-certified forests now top 300 million acres
    worldwide, more than 10 of the worlds working
    forests, growing at 25 per year
  • MSC-certified fisheries now cover 70 of
    ocean-caught salmon (not farmed!) and 26 of
    whitefish, more requests for fishery
    certification than they can handle driven by
    Wal-Mart McDonalds, among others

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Only credible certification is 3rd party,
independent, with explicit social and
environmental NGO support.- Michael Conroy,
expert on certifications
The type of certification matters
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E-Stewards Certification Program
  • Highest standard in the industry
  • Compliant with Basel Convention and Basel Ban
    Amendment
  • All facilities must be certified

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Features of e-Steward Certification
  • Currently available in 41 countries (EU, OECD,
    EFTA) countries
  • Requires and incorporates ISO 14001
  • Utilizes Accredited 3rd Party Certifying Bodies
    to Conduct Audits
  • Comprehensive data security, occupational
    exposure, downstream due diligence, reuse, etc.

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Companies committed to using certified e-Stewards
  • E-Stewards Enterprise companies

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How was the e-Stewards Standard developed?
  • The e-Stewards Standard is the result of
    collaboration between
  • The environmental community
  • Electronics recyclers
  • Auditors
  • Occupational health experts
  • Information security experts
  • The accredited certification industry

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Summary
  • Customers are demanding responsible recycling,
    even if the laws are not- Corporations-
    Manufacturers, who are taking back their
    products- Consumers bringing back their old
    products
  • Media is exposing e-waste export problems
  • Expect more regulation, enforcement of
    regulations
  • Certification is the proof that customers want to
    see

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Contact
  • Electronics TakeBack Coalition
  • www.electronicstakeback.com
  • Barbara Kyle
  • bkyle_at_etakeback.org
  • e-Stewards
  • www.e-stewards.org
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