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Publications
For Consumers
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Electronics: A
New Opportunity for Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling (PDF) (4 pp, 987K)
This fact sheet provides an overview of electronics waste prevention,
reuse, and recycling.
WasteWise Update
"Electronics Reuse and Recycling" (PDF) (16 pp, 1.5MB)
This document discusses the electronics waste stream and the benefits
of electronics reuse and recycling. It also provides information on donating
or recycling electronics, reducing electronics waste by changing purchasing
practices, and managing used electronics. Finally, it highlights electronics
waste reduction opportunities specific to manufacturers and governments.
This brochure describes the Plug-In To eCycling campaign and provides resources for recycling your unwanted electronic equipment; the insert encourages cell phone recycling.
Plug-In
To eCycling Tool Kit
The Plug-In To eCycling Event Tool Kit for consumer electronics recycling
events provides local governments, non-profit organizations, electronics
manufacturers and retailers, and other interested groups with key information
to help them stage electronics recycling events.
Computer TakeBack
Campaign's 3rd Annual Computer Report Card 
Sponsored by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, the Computer TakeBack
Campaign issues a Computer Report Card each Fall to encourage consumers
to leverage their buying power to foster greater corporate responsibility
for protecting public health, worker safety and the environment. The Report
Card analyzes the information on the Web sites of computer companies to
compare and measure the environmental qualities of electronic equipment
and the environmental performance of companies. 
Leasing: A Step Toward
Producer Responsibility
This report examines the practice of leasing products, rather than selling
them, as a strategy for increasing resource productivity, particularly
by preventing waste generation and encouraging a closed-loop pattern of
materials use through reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling. Explores
the ways in which leasing and servicizing (selling the function of a product
rather than the product itself) can affect product ownership, management
at end of life, and product design for a variety of companies and products.
Includes case studies focusing on office equipment, carpeting, cleaning
equipment, and personal computers. Note: this report must be purchased
from INFORM, Inc.
For Industry
Plug-In To eCycling - Guidelines for Materials ManagementGuidelines for Materials Management is the new, voluntary guidance tailor-made for EPA's Plug-In To eCycling partners, who will test the provisions and provide information about the most effective and practical methods for safely managing used electronic equipment.
Environmental Compliance
and Pollution Prevention Guide for the Electronics and Computer Industry (PDF) (88 pp, 2.8MB)
Developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
's (NYSDEC) Pollution Prevention Unit, this guide provides a summary of
NYSDEC's regulations as they pertain to the electronic/computer industry,
pollution prevention tips for each waste stream mentioned, and a list
of technical assistance providers. This guide was made possible by a grant
from EPA Region 2.
Environmental Self-Assessment
for the Electronics and Computer Industry (PDF) (26 pp, 669K)
This checklist was developed by the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation's Pollution Prevention Unit to help the electronics and computer
industry assess its present performance in preventing pollution and identify
opportunities for additional pollution prevention measures. This checklist
was made possible by a grant from EPA Region 2.
Pollution Prevention
in the Electronics Industry (PDF) (128 pp, 315K)
This manual, developed by the U.S. EPA and Secretaria Del Medio Ambiente
Recursos Naturales y Pesca (SEMARNAP), provides an overview of the pollution
prevention and recycling alternatives that are available in the electronics
industry.
Profile
of the Electronics and Computer Industry
This manual provides a brief profile of the electronics and computer industry
covering such topics as general industry information (economic and geographic),
a description of industrial processes, pollution outputs, pollution prevention
opportunities, federal statutory and regulatory framework, compliance
history, and a description of partnerships that have been formed between
regulatory agencies, the regulated community, and the public. It is also
available in Spanish.
- Profile
of the Electronics and Computer Industry - Data Refresh
This refresh document was developed to update the time sensitive data presented in the original manual above.
Recycling Technology Products: An Overview of E-Waste Policy Issues
This Department of Commerce report is designed to assist lawmakers and policymakers in engaging in an informed debate as they consider future action on a potential electronics recycling system that affects the technology industry and its stakeholders, including manufacturers, retailers, recyclers, and consumers. The report summarizes stakeholders’ views and concerns, leads the reader through the different components of a recycling system, and analyzes the most commonly discussed models for financing a national recycling system.
Electronic Product
Recovery and Recycling (EPR2)
Find links to several comprehensive reports on electronics recycling on
the EPR2 Web site, a project of the National Safety Council’s Environmental
Health Center.
Cathode Ray Tube Manufacturing and Recycling: Analysis of Industry Survey
This online version of the Electronic Industries Alliance paper presented
at the 2001 EPR2 Conference. The paper summarizes the findings of a survey
conducted by the Electronic Industries Alliance ("EIA") that
evaluated the current volume of manufacturing and recycling of Cathode
Ray Tube ("CRT") glass by the United States ("U.S.")
CRT glass manufacturers. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the
survey findings and determine if the CRT glass manufacturing industry
has the capacity to absorb an increased volume of recycled glass that
may result from efforts at the federal and state level to increase collection
of CRTs.