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Used electronics recycling has become a growing concern for municipal and regional
solid waste programs. The primary goal of this manual is to provide managers of these
programs and other local officials with the basic tools to set up and operate effective
electronics recycling/reuse programs by learning from the experiences of their peers. In
order to provide this base of experience, a national survey of existing electronics
recycling/reuse programs was conducted. The results of that survey and the experience
of recycling coordinators and other recycling professionals provided the foundation for
this document.
Because of the national need to learn from the limited experience that exists in the
United States, this project enjoyed support from the Environmental Protection Agency
Headquarters, and Regions 1, 2, 4, 8 & 9. This document is not region specific, but is
applicable to anyplace in the U.S. It is being written in conjunction with the
development of training workshops.
The second goal of this manual is to help empower the creation of more electronics
recycling/reuse programs around the country, and thereby stimulate a reliable and
predictable source of used electronics, which will lead to more used electronics
recycling and reuse market development. As recycling markets expand and become
more profitable, we can anticipate that the cost to recycle cathode ray tubes will
decrease, and in time there might even be a positive value.
At the same time that this manual is being written (September - October 2001), a
national effort is unfolding to develop a system of product stewardship for computers
and televisions. The "National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative" (NEPSI), is a
coalition of governments (federal, state, local, and regional), manufacturers of
computers, televisions and other consumer electronics, retailers, software
manufacturers, non-profits and public policy groups, attempting to create a strategy for
shared responsibility between government and industry in the end-of-life management
of electronics.
The NEPSI process is scheduled to be completed in mid-2002, a likely
result of which will be the additional availability of manufacturer and retailer recycling
and take-back programs. It is not expected that these programs will completely replace
government collection programs - however we can look forward to more end-of-life
options and partnerships between government, manufacturers and retailers.
1999 Minnesota Electronics Recovery Project Site Costs and Program Tracking
Form
Michael Meuser bootstrapped his way into the salvage and recycling business in the early 1980s. He began with building deconstruction and scrap metals and then moved into electronics, computer and telecommunications scrap where he learned to recover gold and other precious metal. Michael tells his story, provides resources and offers his advice at his website, RecyclingSecrets.com, and his blog, Recycling Secrets Blog. Also, you can follow Michael on Twitter.
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