• AMDisearthfriendly
19 Jun 2010

AMD has R2 Certified Facilities

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Electronic Recyclers with R2 Certified Facilities

Choosing the right electronics recycler to manager your company’s IT assets is a critically important decision. Selecting the wrong electronics recycler can mean exposing your company to data mismanagement, and putting your company at unnecessary legal and financial risk. Contracting with an electronics recycler that is R2 Certified means peace of mind in knowing that your company’s IT assets are being managed by a recycler that has demonstrated they have a system in place to properly handle materials according to the R2 Standard. And, finding an electronics recycler that is R2 Certified is easy. Recyclers from all regions of the country and around the world, offering a wide range of asset disposal and management services, have been R2 Certified. And, the list continues to grow rapidly.

 

 

  • r2cert
19 Apr 2010

Why the need for R2 certification?

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Those involved in the R2 development process, and R2 supporters very much believe in the mission of the R2 standard and the positive effect it is having on the industry. Each recycling operation that becomes R2 certified not only sets themselves apart as an industry leader, but they become part of the movement to raise the overall industry standards for operations and material handling.

Here are just a few examples of the important research that demonstrates the need for the R2 standard. Some of this research also highlights the need to facilitate reuse, in the U.S. and abroad, as well as the need to responsibly develop the electronics recycling industry around the globe.

Relevant research demonstrating the need for the R2 Principles

Product or Waste? Importation and End-of-Life Processing of Computers in Peru
By Ramzy Kahhat and Eric Williams, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (15), pp 6010�6016.
A summary of the piece can be found at, http://ewasteguide.info/e-waste-reuse-may-be link to the abstract can be found at, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es8035835?prevSearch=ramzy%2Bkahhat&searchHistoryKey=.

Forecasting Global Generation of Obsolete Personal Computers
By Jinglei Yu, Eric Williams, Meiting Ju and Yan Yang, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2010, 44 (9), pp 3232�3237.
A link to the abstract can be found at, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es903350q.
A summary can be found at, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322073534.htm.

Mapping International Flows of Electronic Waste
By Josh Lepawsky and Chris McNabb, The Canadian Geographer, 2009.  http://www.geog.unt.edu/lyons/GEOG%205130/Seminar%20in%20Industrial%20Ecology/E%20Waste/Lepawsky%20E-Waste%20CG%202010.pdf.

  • r2cert
06 Mar 2010

Why choose an R2 recycler?

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R2 Practices:  Making your IT asset disposal choice easy

According to a recent survey conducted by Converge, IT managers at mid- to large-size companies cite data breach from discarded computers as the number one concern when disposing of IT equipment.  Environmental practices, ensuring proper e-waste disposal, and finding asset disposition support for remarketing or reusing equipment were also top priorities listed in this report.

The R2 Standard addresses all of these areas of concern, so you can be sure that your IT equipment is managed according to the highest industry standards while meeting your organizational goals and needs.  Every certified R2 recycler has been rigorously audited by an independent third party auditor that evaluates each recycler in more than 50 areas of operational and environmental performance.

Here are just a few examples of how R2 Practices addresses these top corporate concerns that impact decision making when choosing the right IT asset disposal provider:

Data security

  • All R2 certified recyclers are required to sanitize, purge, or destroy data on all hard drives and data storage devices.
  • Data destruction processes are reviewed and validated by an independent party periodically.
  • R2 recyclers are required to have a security program in place that is appropriate for the equipment they handle and the customers they serve.

Environmental practices

  • R2 defines focus materials, or materials that can pose environmental concern, and outlines how these materials should be managed to ensure environmental and worker safety.
  • Requires downstream due diligence on all vendors handling focus materials to ensure materials are handled properly throughout the chain of custody.
  • Prohibits the export of equipment and components containing focus materials to developing countries unless the transaction is legal under both the export and import countries’ laws and the receiving facility is state-of-the-art.

Proper e-waste disposal

  • All R2 certified electronics recyclers maintain necessary permits, licenses, and insurance as required by state and federal regulations.
  • R2 requires that all recyclers send materials to licensed and permitted facilities.
  • Rigorous shipping and material tracking systems are employed by all R2 certified recyclers.


Remarketing and reuse

  • Recognizing the importance that reuse has, both environmentally and socially, R2 Practices establishes a “reuse, recover, dispose” hierarchy all along the chain of custody for material handling.
  •  R2 certified recyclers that test equipment diverted for reuse, and confirm key functions of the unit are working, may export this equipment .  Without such testing and confirmation, such equipment must be treated as though it is going to recycling and may not be exported unless the R2 exporting provisions for recycling are satisfied.
  • Also recognizing that some clients would not want their equipment remarketed or reused, R2 Practices require recyclers to have systems in place to ensure that all equipment can be recycled, rather than recovered for reuse, if the client wishes.

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