ISRI Board Adopts Electronics Recycling Policy
"ISRI supports legislation that promotes a market-based, sustainable recycling infrastructure and facilitates the recycling of electronics in an environmentally sound manner," reads the new ISRI policy. The policy goes on to address many key issues that must be dealt with as the industry and the country seek solutions to the growing amount of E-scrap material available. These issues include producer responsibility, advanced recycling fees (ARFs), Design for Recycling®, specifications for electronics scrap, and certification standards for recyclers such as ISRI's Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS) that will be implemented this year.
"Current legislative efforts have been far too focused on the costs of recycling E-scrap," said Eric Harris, ISRI's Director of Governmental Affairs. "Effective legislation will address the E-Scrap issue from all sides, including design, manufacturing, de-manufacturing, environmental impacts as well as economic impacts. As experts in the collection and disposition of scrap commodities, ISRI members are taking the lead in establishing effective policy."
ISRI members and staff are scheduled to visit with state and national legislators and regulators in the coming weeks to introduce the policy and to provide support for the creation of sound legislation that can substantively improve E-scrap recycling in North America.
On Sept. 22, ISRI is also hosting a panel discussion titled "Electronics Recycling End-Use Consumer Markets: The Challenges of Today and Tomorrow" as a part of the Commodities Roundtable Forum. The electronics roundtable begins with a morning tour of one of the nation's leading E-scrap recycling facilities owned by United Recycling. Later that afternoon, the roundtable session will feature key players in electronics recycling.
SOURCE: Institute Of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI)