2004 Report on EIAs Electronics Recycling Initiatives

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2004 Report on EIAs Electronics Recycling
Initiatives Heather S. Bowman Director,
Environmental Affairs Electronic Industries
Alliance May 15, 2004
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Presentation Overview

• Electronic Industries Alliance
• EIAs Environmental Issues Council
• Legislative and Regulatory Advocacy Efforts
• Strategic Partnerships
• Industry and Consumer Tools

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Electronic Industries Alliance
Public Policy
Standards Technology
Meetings Networking

• 2,500 Members
• 80 of a 430 billion industry
• Unique alliance structure
• Environmental Issues Council

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Electronic Industries AllianceThe Whole is
Greater Than the Sum of the Individual Parts
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Scope of Environmental IssuesFacing the
Electronics Industry
Advance Recovery Fees
End-of-Life Fees
Product Take-back (Manufacturer Responsibility)
End of Life Management
Voluntary Specifications
Mercury
Product Energy Use
Market Requirements
Chemical Restrictions
Lead
Energy Efficiency Mandates
Flame Retardants
Other Issues - Green Procurement - Ecolabels -
Material Declaration Questionnaires
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EIAs Environmental Issues Council

• Provides members with environmental policy
  information
• EIC mission reduce environmental impacts posed
  by electronic products across their entire life
  cycles
• Address key electronic product issues
• Electronics recycling
• energy efficiency
• Chemical restrictions
• Green design

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Legislative and Regulatory Advocacy Efforts

• Represent industry before federal and state
  policymakers on electronics recycling issues
• Work to promote a shared responsibility approach
  to the financing and collection of electronics
  recycling
• Submit comments and testify on state legislation
• Submit comment on federal CRT rule and state
  universal waste rule
• Develop position papers on green procurement,
  ecolabels and other voluntary market drivers

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Examples of Regulatory Elements

• Require Life Cycle Assessments when Products are
  Designed (EU EuP Directive)
• Ban Certain Chemicals from Use in Products
• (EU RoHS, China RoHS)
• 3. Require Consumer Notification and/or Product
  Labeling at Point of Sale (US state specific)
• 4. Require Electronic Products to Achieve
  Certain Energy Efficiency During Use
• (US Federal and State)
• 5. Require Collection and Proper EOL Management
• (EU WEEE, Japan, US Federal and State)

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Strategic Partnerships

• EIA recycling grants help fund collection
  programs
• 2004 Massachusetts DEP, Goodwill Industries,
  WasteCap
• Participate in international, federal, and state
  electronics initiatives
• NEPSI Dialogue
• OECD ESM Guidelines
• US EPA Plug into eCycling Initiative
• US EPAs DfE Project on lead-free solders
• EPEAT Project
• Federal Electronics Recycling Challenge
• Basel UNEP Partnerships e2e, Mobile Phone

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Industry and Consumer Tools

• EIAs Consumer Education Initiative website
  (www.eiae.org)
• Provides consumers with opportunities for
  electronics reuse and recycling
• EIA Material Declaration Guide working to
  develop international standard
• Data could be used to communicate material
  composition data with recyclers at product
  end-of-life
• EIATrack International Regulatory Compliance Tool
• Helps companies track international
  product-related environmental restrictions
• Helps companies design products for legal
  compliance and environmental marketing.

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Company Efforts

• EIA supports and promotes actions of individual
  member companies to promote electronics recycling
• Companies are actively involved in design for
  environmental efforts
• Several companies implementing collection and
  recycling efforts

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Thank you for your attentionFor More Information

• EIA website www.eia.org
• Consumer Education Initiative www.eiae.org
• Heather Bowman
• Director, Environmental Affairs
• 2500 Wilson Blvd
• Arlington, VA 22201
• hbowman_at_eia.org