A computer tower with a tracking device provided by the Green Tracking Service (device at lower right).
A U.S. company has begun providing an e-scrap tracking service so processors and OEMs can see where their downstream vendors are sending devices. One processor is already regularly using the service.
The processing line at Proambi’s facility in Mexico, photo courtesy of Salvador Río
Mexico may be America’s neighbor to the south, but in some ways, the e-scrap ecosystems in the two nations are worlds apart. And perhaps the biggest difference is the fact that in Mexico, an informal system of electronics collection and processing is well-established.
The administrator of the R2 recycling standard has detailed what is and isn’t legal when shipping used electronics and e-scrap to Hong Kong.
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PCs and display devices will have to meet new standards to be listed on a registry of environmentally friendly electronics.
Over the past decade, third-party certification has become an expectation for many processors and refurbishers of electronics.
The group behind the R2 standard released a broad plan for ensuring certified facilities better conform to the electronics recycling standard. Among the considerations is the use of GPS trackers to keep tabs on material movement.
E-Scrap News has now published responses from five of the six companies named in Basel Action Network’s latest export report (“The Scam Recycling Continues”). In their statements, those companies have made some assertions that warrant a response. In addition, one of the company responses noted a geographic error in the recent report, and we wish to publicly correct that fact. The inaccuracy, while regrettable, has no bearing on the findings of export in the report. Continue Reading
John Lingelbach will be leaving his post at the helm of Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) and the R2 certification program later this year.
Accredited certification bodies use international standards and, increasingly, industry-specific additional performance requirements to audit product and service companies’ processes to determine conformance and award certification.
This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.
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