Electronics Recycling
Electronic scrap recycling is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing segments of the scrap recycling industry and generated an estimated revenue of more than $5.2 billion to the U.S. economy in 2010, employed more than 30,000 full-time employees in the private sector and when non-profit organizations are included, more than 45,000 people; and collected and processed domestically more than 3.5 million of used and end-of-life electronics. These figures are up, ISRI reports, from up from less than $1 billion in economic impact, 6,000 full-time employees and processing output 600,000 tons in 2002.
ISRI, along with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, industry representatives and other stakeholders, helped develop the Responsible Recycling certification standard for Electronics Recyclers, (R2), an environmental safety standard that seeks to implement environmental, health and safety regulations for electronics recyclers in the absence of regulation in the U.S.
Companies certified to the standard agree to meet and maintain specific health and safety requirements in the process of dismantling and recycling scrap electronics.
ISRI also developed the RIOS standard to help improve the recycling industry overall and is available to any recycler, not just electronics recyclers.
A current list of Certified Electronics Recyclers is available at http://www.r2rios.org/certified_electronic_recyclers.html.
Read more about this topic: Institute Of Scrap Recycling Industries
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