Bloom ESG and e-Stewards have added a critical metals conservation metric to their jointly developed Environmental Benefits Calculator. Electronics recyclers and ITAD providers can now quantify recovered cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements at the order level.
The addition, announced April 14, is the first metric of its kind in the US ITAD sector built from primary recovery and smelter data. Corporate sustainability teams are under growing pressure to report on materials retention within the circular economy, not only carbon impact. Regulatory scrutiny over supply chain resilience and critical mineral traceability has accelerated that shift.
The calculator launched a year ago as part of a strategic partnership between the two organizations. It supports Scope 1–4 emissions reporting and is verified against ISO 14064. Deployment runs through a direct integration with Makor ERP, the most widely used operational platform in the ITAD sector.
A reporting gap on materials recovery
Carbon avoidance has become a standard sustainability claim for electronics recyclers and their corporate clients. Quantifying the conservation of strategically important materials has been harder, especially with data that can withstand external audit.
Sebastian Foot, co-founder and CEO of Bloom ESG, said the platform has seen rapid adoption since its initial launch in March 2025. “What we have seen since is remarkable, both in the scale of adoption and in the quality of insight that processors are now able to deliver to their corporate clients,” he said.
The metric draws on data gathered directly from recovery processes and smelter operations. An independent audit firm handles verification. The companies say that separation from modeled estimates is the point: regulators, investors and procurement teams now expect environmental claims tied to actual operational results.
Legacy calculator retired
e-Stewards also announced it is retiring its existing mobile environmental benefits calculator, the e-Stewards Global Impact Calculator. The legacy tool helped shape early industry expectations around environmental reporting for e-waste reuse and recycling. Its underlying assumptions are now outdated and no longer meet current corporate reporting requirements, the organization said.
The Bloom ESG + e-Stewards platform replaces it as the organization’s endorsed reporting tool.
Availability
The calculator is open to all electronics recyclers and refurbishers, including companies not certified to the e-Stewards standard. The companies said they plan to add new environmental metrics in future releases.
Additional information is available at bloom-esg.com and e-stewards.org.
