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HOME Nat’l Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI)  Goal is “the development of a system, which includes a viable financing mechanism, to maximize the collection, reuse, and recycling of used electronics, while considering appropriate incentives to design products that facilitate source reduction, reuse and recycling; reduce toxicity; and increase recycled content.”  Stakeholders: State/Local Govts., Manufacturers, Electronic Industries Alliance, Non-profits, Recyclers, Retailers   Contact: Clare Lindsay, HQ (

HOME Western Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI)  Agreement signed August 2002  Characteristics and features of a sustainable product stewardship system  Highlights activities that govt., industry and non- profits in the West can take to catalyze market and infrastructure development for product stewardship  Stakeholders: R9, R10, State/Local Govts., Manufacturers, Non-profits   Contact: Viccy Salazar, R10 (

HOME Federal Electronics Stewardship Working Group  Signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperatively develop a cohesive national strategy  to increase demand for “greener” electronic products  address end-of-life management issues  Partners: Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE), CEQ, DOD, DOE, EPA, DOI, USPS  Currently supporting the Federal Electronics Challenge  Contact: Juan Lopez, OFEE (

HOME Brominated Flame Retardants Roundtable  Conference & Stakeholder Meeting held in September 2002  Partners: EPA, CDC, State/local govts., Non- profits, Manufacturers, Electronics mfg.   Contact: Eileen Sheehan, R9 ( –

HOME e-Design workshop, Best practices for local govt.  Goal: Promote sustainable manufacturing and disposal practices in the high tech industry  Partners: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Materials for Future Foundation and Industrial Designers Society of America  Project includes  Partnership-building with Industrial Design Community  E-waste Forum on Foreign Exports (local govt. & communities)  Model Policy Development for Local Government  Contact: Adrienne Priselac, R9 (

HOME DfE Assessment Tool  Design for Environment assessment tool for electronic products using a multi-stakeholder process  Similar to the LEEDS system with tiers of achievement  Partners: Zero Waste Alliance, Rifer Environmental, EPA OPPT/OSW  Contact: Viccy Salazar, R10 (

HOME Sustainable Electronics Design Challenge  Goal: To motivate electronics designers and manufacturers to fundamentally re-think electronics design and to create sustainable products for the long term  Green Blue Institute will create a set of ambitious design criteria for future electronics products, focusing on  redesigning the products of the future  address life cycle impacts of electronics  promote development of sustainable products  Designers and industry players will be formally challenged to meet criteria in visionary future products  Judging panel will identify winning submissions by late 2003  Partners: Designers, manufacturers, public and private stakeholders  Contact: Marie Boucher, HQ ( –

HOME DfE Lead-Free Solder project  Life-cycle assessment of tin-lead and lead-free alternative solders for informed industry choices about lead-free solders, moving away from tin-lead solder in the next few years  Goal definition and scoping phase completed  Collection of life-cycle inventory data by February 2003, Draft LCA report in May 2003, Final LCA in August 2003  Partners: Electronic Industries Alliance, IPC (printed wiring board trade association), the Univ. TN Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, Electronics/Solder mfg., Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition  Contact: Kathy Hart, HQ ( –

HOME DfE Computer Display project  Final Life-cycle assessment of impacts published December 2001  associated with cathode-ray tube (CRT) and liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors  CRT monitor has greater impacts than the LCD monitor in all but two impact categories (eutrophication and aquatic toxicity)  Can lessen LCD environmental impacts by  Reducing energy consumption during manufacture  Cutting back on the use of chemicals that pose aquatic toxicity risks or that contribute to global warming (e.g., sulfur hexafluoride)  Eliminating the use of mercury  LCD manufacturers working toward improving the environmental profile of their displays  Partners: Electronic Industries Alliance, IPC, the University of Tennessee Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, original electronic equipment and component manufacturers and suppliers, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition   Contact: Kathy Hart, HQ ( –

HOME Greening Electronics Factsheet  Gives federal procurement officials info on the purchasing of electronic equipment  Environmental and Health Concerns  EnergyStar® sample contract language  Green Purchase Model Criteria and Contract  Success Stories, Contacts and Resources  Timeline: Originally published in 5/02, undergoing internal/stakeholder review, revised fact sheets available by 3/03  Partners: EPA EPP team document with internal and external stakeholder review  Contact: Chris Kent, HQ (

HOME Environmentally Preferable Purchasing for Electronic Products  Develop the Green Purchasing Guide and host the website with lots of information.  Support "green" purchasing of Electronic products, especially within the public sector  Partners: Northwest Product Stewardship Council, (See web site for full list of participating agencies)  Contact: Viccy Salazar, R10 (

HOME Govt. Procurement Guide to Purchasing Environmentally Preferable Computers  Targeted to state/local govt. procurement officials  Covering Environmental Health & Safety issues, identify EPP strategies to reduce impacts, how to start EPP program for computers  Partners: created by Product Stewardship Institute  NERC, SVTC, Full Circle Environmental  MA, state/local govts, City of Denver  EIA, TCO, IBM, Apple  Contact: Chris Beling, R1 (

HOME Guidelines for electronics for CA agencies  To be completed by summer 2003  Partners: Green Seal, California Integrated Waste Management Board  Contact: Adrienne Priselac, R9 (

HOME Federal Electronics Challenge  Will develop a hierarchy of options that federal organizations can implement to  make greener purchasing decisions  better manage their electronic assets and  Project will recognize both the economic and environmental impacts of federally owned electronic equipment.  Partners: OFEE, EPA R5/R9/R10/HQ, Federal Network for Sustainability  Contact: Viccy Salazar, R10 (

HOME Reused Electronics Market Study  Study of Reused Electronics Market Sustainability in New England  Surveying vendors involved with the reuse of computers and TVs to determine the economic viability and sustainability of this aspect of used electronics management  Survey ongoing, completion date Spring 2003  Partners: Northeast Recycling Council   Contact: Chris Beling, R1 (

HOME Testing plastics from used electronics  Testing high-end reuse of engineering plastics from used electronic products  Identify barriers & opportunities to recycling plastics from used electronic products in the manufacture of new electronic products. The project seeks to advance the establishment of closed-loop recycling for engineering plastics  Partners: MN, WI, IL, Sony, etc.  Contact: Jason Swift, R5 ( –

HOME Evaluation of Cell phone reuse programs  Goal: to study the effectiveness of selected cell phone donation and take-back programs  Determine how their value is recaptured and how collected phones are ultimately managed at end- of-life  Assess the environmental benefits of these programs  Partners: INFORM  Funded as EPA Innovations Pilot  Contact: Lorraine Graves, R2 (

HOME E-Recycling Toolkit for Communities  Toolkit for communities planning electronics recycling events developed from Midwest Electronics Recycling conference (2001)  Tool-kit will be completed Winter 02/03  Partners: NE State Recycling Association  Contact: Dave Flora, R7 (

HOME ECycling project  Goal: to develop an economically and environmentally sustainable collection, reuse, and recycling system for electronics  sharing responsibility among business (electronics manufacturers and retailers), government, and consumers.  Partners:  DE, MD, WV, VA, PA  Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Envirocycle Inc., Waste Management Asset Recovery Group, Elemental Inc., Electronic Industries Alliance  Polymer Alliance Zone of West Virginia.   Contact: Claudette Reed, R3 ( –

HOME Plug Into Recycling Campaign  Goal: Increase the number of used electronics safely collected and recycled nationwide by  educating consumers on why it’s important and motivating them to visit new and existing collection events across the US  Consumer awareness campaign linked to electronics recycling events around Earth Day 2003, launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2003  Partners: Manufacturers, retailers, states, locals, feds, and non-profits.  Contact: Kathy Kaplan, HQ (

HOME Electronics Mgmt/Recycling Workshop & Collection Event  Mobile, Alabama  Collection event was a 'hands-on' training event for the workshop participants  Workshop attended by 30 AL state and local officials and was followed by a 2-day collection event for public, area businesses  Contact: Pam Swingle, R4 (

HOME National Electronics Mgmt & Compliance Assistance Workshops  Discussed regulatory/compliance issues, policies, markets, and needs of regulated community  Over 100 participants at each workshop  First in Denver - July 2002  Second in Atlanta – September 2002  Organized by Southern Waste Information eXchange  Contact: Pam Swingle, R4 (

HOME TCLP Testing of Electronic Components  Testing whole computer (CPU), keyboards, and peripherals for 8 RCRA metals, inc. Lead  Using Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure  To identify toxicity issues for electronics beyond the Cathode Ray Tubes (monitors)  Partners: Regions 4 and 5 funded research at the University of Florida  Contact: Pam Swingle, R4 (

HOME Thermal Treatment of Electronics Waste  Goal: To evaluate emissions from low and high temperature thermal processing of e-waste  Laboratory and pilot-scale experimental program  Low temperature processing simulates roasting operation  High temperature processing simulates municipal waste combustor  Variables of interest  Partitioning of metals between bottom ash and fly ash  Leachability of metals from bottom ash and fly ash  Formation of organic air toxics (e.g., dioxins and furans, brominated products of incomplete combustion)  Currently funded through ORD/NRMRL exploratory research grant  Looking for partners  Contact: Eric Stewart, ORD (

HOME Eco-industrial park/electronics demanufacturing  Congressional earmark to construct an eco-industrial park in the Parkersburg, WV area  To dismantle used electronics and manufacturing new products using the plastics obtained from this recycling  Polymer Alliance Zone doing economic and business modeling on how to collect, transport and recycle used electronics  Partners: PAZ, DOE  Contact: Clare Lindsay, HQ (

HOME Proposed CRT Rule  Status of CRTs (product - waste)  Households, small generators, intended reuse/repair = not regulated  Streamlined requirements for glass processors  Haz waste rules apply if landfilled or incinerated  Final Rule in May 2004  Contact: Marilyn Goode, HQ (

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