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Product Stewardship for
Electronics:
EPA’s Current Initiatives
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Background:
Product Stewardship in Electronics
Gaining Momentum
• International Initiatives: RoHs
Directive, WEEE Directive, ELV
Directive, Basel Convention
Mobile Phone Partnership
Initiative
• Domestic Initiatives: EPA’s CRT
Rule, California SB 20, legislative
activity in Maine, Massachusetts
and Minnesota.
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EPA’s Goal
• Electronic Products are designed and
manufactured so they are:
– Have lower impact on the environment,
– Contain fewer hazardous and toxic
constituents, and
– Easier to reuse and recycle;
• Increased market demand for ‘greener’
electronic products;
• There are convenient, low cost
electronics reuse and recycling
centers; and
• Reuse and recycling centers are
environmentally safe and robust
markets exist for the materials
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EPA’s commitment to reusing and
safely recycling used electronics:
Current Focus
I.
Increase Safe Recovery of
Discarded Electronics
II. Set Federal Example in
Improved Stewardship of
Electronics
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I. Increasing Safe Recovery:
Plug-In To eCyclingwww.plugintoecycling.org
Housed in the EPA’s Office of Solid
Waste’s Product Stewardship Team,
Plug-In is:
A consumer electronics
recycling outreach
campaign that aims to
increase the availability of safe
electronics recycling.
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Plug-In Partnerships
EPA fosters partnerships with
manufacturers, retailers and
government organizations to
focus more national attention
on electronics recycling options and give
consumers more places and
opportunities to safely, conveniently
and affordably recycle old electronics
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Plug-In Partners:
Who are they and what do they do?
Some examples:
• Manufacturers
• Retailers
• State and Local Governments
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Agree to host collection and outreach
events, feature ecycling information on
website and advertising information,
document data collection, use recyclers
that meet EPA’s ESM recycling guidelines.
Plug-In Plans for State and
Local Governments
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Update Event Toolkit
FAQs for Choosing Recyclers
Listserve
Plug-In awareness events in
collaboration with state and local
governments (i.e. Earth
Day/electronics collection with DC
Office of Recycling)
How does EPA support partner
efforts?
• Recognizes partners at public events and
in publications and outreach materials
• EPA officials mention partners on relevant
news programs
• Highlights partners in press releases
• Provides technical assistance as needed
for collection events
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Upcoming Pilot
Initiatives
Testing range of ways where manufacturers, retailers,
governments and others can share financial
responsibility for recycling old electronics:
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Staples New England Pilot: electronics takeback program with
manufacturer and retailer financial support
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Office Depot/Good Guys Pacific Northwest Pilot: electronics
takeback program with manufacturer and retailer financial
support
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Best Buy Minnesota Pilot: strategic awareness raising of drop
off service
** Staples Redmond, WA/ Portland, OR Takeback Initiative.
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3,000+ computers and notebook computers dropped off at stores for recycling.
More than 2,130 donations made in the Puget Sound area
More than 410 donations made in the Portland/Willamette Valley area.
Represents over $25,000 in donations for local school districts.
Achievements and Next Steps
Achievements:
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Since the program was launched in Jan. 2003, EPA
signed on 15 members in the manufacturing and retail
sectors. More than 26.4 million pounds of electronics
were collected by partners in the first 10 months of the
program.
Next Steps:
• Continue recruiting private sector partners
• Continue to generate awareness in media and national
events
• Improve outreach and awareness tools for local
governments and private partners
• Launch national ecycling data collection mechanism
• Encourage widespread use of Plug-In’s Safe Recycling
(ESM) Guidelines –NOW AVAILABLE
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II. Improving Federal
Stewardship of Electronics
• Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC)www.federalelectronicschallenge.net
• Electronic Product Environmental
Assessment Tool (EPEAT)- www.epeat.net
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What is the Federal
Electronics Challenge?
The FEC is a purchasing, use, and end-of-life
management challenge issued for
federal facilities or agencies to:
1. Purchase greener electronic products
2. Manage electronic assets in an environmentally
sound manner
3. Receive assistance to improve current
practices
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Some quick facts…
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Approximately 10,000 federally owned computers
deemed excess or surplus each week
– FEC establishing ESM guidelines and audit process for
Federal Agencies
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U.S. federal sector represents a significant market
share for electronics
– FY 2003 IT budget –$53 BILLION (Hardware & Services)
– FY 2004 IT budget – approximately $59 BILLION
(Hardware & Services), FY 2005 and beyond –
GROWING!
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Electronics represent serious environmental costs
and opportunities for Federal Agencies
– Federal Agencies CARE and are looking toward the FEC
for answers.
– See opportunities for cost savings and environmental
gain
– Avoid potential liability
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What is EPEAT?
To develop, build-on or adopt an assessment
tool for electronic products and services and
to actively disseminate saidassessment tool.
The tool should:
– Promote continuous improvement
– Address the lifecycle
– Inform purchasing decisions by institutional
purchasers
– Provide market advantage
– Be low cost, user friendly, and causes
minimal delay in time to market;
– Produces credible, verifiable outcomes
– Provides value in the marketplace
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Major Electronics Projects
Improve Design
Design Challenge
CRT Rule
DFE: monitors,
lead solder
(OPPTS)
EPEAT
Plug-In Program
& Pilots
Federal
Electronics
Challenge
(OPPTS +
OSW)
Improve Federal
Stewardship
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NEPSI
Safe Recycling
Guidelines
- Plug-In
- OECD
Increase Safe Recovery
Increase Safe Recovery
Improve Federal Stewardship
Improve Design
For more information…
• Plug-in to eCycling
www.plugintoecycling.org
Verena Radulovic, USEPA
Tel: (703) 605-0760 [email protected]
• Federal Electronics Challenge
www.federalelectronicschallenge
-Sonia Kassambara, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
Tel: (202) 564-9288 [email protected]
-Viccy Salazar, EPA Project Manger
Tel: (206) 553-1060 [email protected]
• EPEAT
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www.epeat.net
-Viccy Salazar, EPA Project Manger (see above)
-Larry Chalfan, Project Manager, Zero Waste Alliance
Tel: (503) 279-9383 [email protected]
The Big Picture on EPA’s
Electronics Sector Work
Design
Purchasing
DfE Lead Free
Solder
Electronics Product Fact
Sheet
(OPPT DfE)
(OPPT PPD)
DfE Computer
Display LCA
Electronic Products
Environmental
Assessment Tool
(EPEAT)
(OPPT DfE)
Use/Re-use
End of Life
Energy Star
Plug into E-Cycling
(OAR)
(OSW MISW)
Cell Phone Reuse
evaluation
National Electronic
Product Stewardship
dialogue
(Reg 2)
(OSW MISW)
(OPPT PPD/OSW MISW)
Sustainable
Electronics Design
Competition
Reused Electronics
Market Study
(Reg 1)
(OSW MISW)
TCLP Testing of
Electronic
Components
(OPPT DfE, Reg 4 &5)
Proposed CRT Rule
(OSW MISW)
READ Contract
(OARM)
Federal Electronics Challenge
(OPPT PPD, OSW MISW, Region 5, Region 9, Region 10, OFEE)
Resource Conservation Challenge Electronics Cluster (OPPT/OSW)
Environmental Management System (EMS) (Federal Government Wide)