National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship Accomplishments Report


National Strategy for
Electronics Stewardship:

Accomplishments Report

January 2017

Co-Chairs:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. Department of Energy

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Introduction

Electronic devices are an integral part of our daily lives. While these products enhance our lives, they may also
have significant human health and environmental impacts during the product's life cycle. Many of these impacts
can be addressed through more sustainable and responsible management in both the public and private sectors.

In 2014, over 720 million new electronic products were sold and 3.36 million tons of used electronics were ready
for end-of-life management in the United States.1 With the continued increase in number and type of electronic
product, these numbers are expected to increase each year. In order to lead and encourage responsible global
life cycle management, the U.S. government has prioritized electronics stewardship by acknowledging both the
opportunities and issues these technologies present.

In 2010, the federal community worked together as an interagency Task Force to "prepare a national strategy
for responsible electronics stewardship." In July 2011, the Task Force released the National Strategy for
Electronics Stewardship (NSES), establishing a unified framework to evolve electronics stewardship throughout
the products' life cycle.

The convening of the Task Force and the development of the NSES brought together 16 federal agencies to focus
on electronics stewardship and to define a pathway for action to demonstrate federal leadership on this issue.
The Task Force identified and implemented 46 actions over the course of the last six years. Some actions were
distinct and are completed, while others were meant to be ongoing and to adjust to the evolving world of
electronics. Some of the efforts that were set in motion prior to the NSES have matured or been built upon and
expanded.

This report charts the progress and accomplishments of the NSES in addressing sustainable management of
electronics and highlights the benefits of continued leadership from the federal government. It also considers
the future role of the U.S. government as new and different electronics become part of our world today.

Accomplishments

Over the last six years the NSES Task Force, comprised of federal agencies and interested stakeholders, worked
to identify a number of challenges and gaps that need to be addressed to support electronics stewardship in the
U.S. and around the world. Most of the activities that Task Force members committed to under the NSES have
been completed successfully. The few actions that have yet to be completed are either nearing completion or
will require renewed focus and novel approaches to achieve the desired effect. The sections below reflect both
the challenges and gaps identified as well as the Task Force's efforts to fill the gaps in pursuit of the four
overarching NSES goals.

NSES Goal 1 - Incentivize the Design and Manufacture of Sustainable Electronics, to Include Safe Working
Environments, Resource-Efficient Supply Chains, and Products Built for Reuse and Recycling:

Challenges and Gaps

• Identifying design and research challenges and opportunities.

• Promoting consumer purchasing of green electronics.

• Promoting scientific research and technical developments to improve recovery and market value of
recycled materials (i.e., precious metals and rare earths).

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• Expanding green electronics certification programs.

Activities and Accomplishments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the Greener Products website to help purchasers find
greener products, including sustainable electronics.

Since its launch in April 2013, the Greener Products
website has received almost 88,000 visitors.

Executive Order 13693 directed agencies to buy
environmentally sustainable electronic products,
which meet EPA's Recommendations of
Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Use in
Federal Procurement. EPA's recommendations
encourage federal agencies to purchase Electronic
Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)" registered computers, displays, imaging equipment, and
televisions. The U.S. government's purchasing of sustainable electronics has significantly influenced and
leveraged purchases made by other institutions both in the U.S. and globally. EPA conducted a series of
trainings on the EPEAT1" ecolabel and product registry, including a webinar entitled "It is Easy Being Green.'"" - a
Federal Acquisition Institute webinar had 2,056 live viewers and has received 378 additional views since being
posted on the web.

• New voluntary environmental
performance standards for designing
"green" televisions and imaging
equipment (copiers and printers) have
been completed and added to EPEAT®,IV

• The EPEAT" ecolabel and product registry
expanded to include tablets, two-in-one
notebooks, and portable all-in-one
devices. Federal guidance was issued on
purchasing EPEAT "'-registered products in
the new categories.7

• The EPA, U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) and U.S.

Department of Labor (DOL) are
participating in ongoing work to develop
voluntary sustainability standards for

servers and cell phones and to update the standard currently used by EPEAT® for computers and
displays.

• DOE launched the Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute, which is
headquartered in Rochester, New York and led by the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation
Alliance. REMADE will leverage up to $70 million in federal funding, subject to appropriations, and will
be matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from over 100 partners. The REMADE
Institute will focus on reducing the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture
materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste. By enabling recycling and reuse, the

Why EPEAT®'- Registered Products?

EPEATs-registered products contain fewer toxic
materials, use less energy, last longer, use more
recycled materials in the product and packaging, and
are more easily recycled or upgraded than other
electronics.

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Institute will dramatically reduce the energy intensive processes of extracting raw materials and
manufacturing the products, and will improve overall manufacturing efficiencies.

• DOE's Critical Materials Institute developed a new, low cost and sustainable process for the recovery of
critical and valuable materials from scrap electronics.

• GSA launched a GreenCheck label so federal buyers can quickly and easily find government-wide
contract vehicles on the Acquisition Gateway that meet federal green purchasing requirements. GSA
launched GreenCheck first for government-wide contract vehicles that allow federal buyers to
purchase information technology (IT) hardware.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) published four health hazard evaluation reports looking at occupational hazards in the
electronic scrap recycling industry and two peer-reviewed publications based upon these health hazard
evaluations.

o Metal Exposures at three U.S. Electronic Scrap Recycling Facilities"'. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2016

Dec 9:0. [Epub ahead of print] and Ceballos D, Gong W, Page E [2015],
o A Pilot Assessment of Occupational Health Hazards in the U.S. electronic Scrap Recycling
Industry"". J Occup Environ Hyg 12 (7):482-288 doi: 10.1080/15459624.2015.1018516.

• NIOSH manages an ongoing project looking at possible occupational exposures to electronics recyclers
of metals, flame retardants and other contaminants. A final report on the data from the first site is
expected soon, and three additional sites for data collection have been identified.

• NIOSH established a blog entitled Occupational Exposures at Electronic Scrap Recycling Facilities."'"

• EPA convened a sustainable electronics forum to discuss major research challenges, policy issues and
opportunities facing the management of electronic products. The forum resulted in the publication of a
research roadmap that can serve to guide EPA and other stakeholders in prioritizing electronics-related
research.IX

• EPA published Rare Earth Elements: A Review of Production, Processing, Recycling, and Associated
Environmental Issues

• EPA funded small business innovation research which concluded that innovative high-speed
technologies can be developed for rare earth element sorting in e-waste recycling applications/'

• EPA funded small business innovation research resulting in identification of a scalable, environmentally
friendly, low-cost methodology for recovery of specific rare earth elements from electronic
components/"

• EPA funded student research that developed tools to assist in recycling of liquid crystal displays for
maximum resource recovery/'"

• In order to develop better methods for managing e-waste, the e-Waste Challenge was launched by EPA
at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Nine winning concepts were selected from
among nearly 200 contributions, and are currently being implemented/'"

• EPA funded the Tracking Molecular Components of Electronics Open Innovation Challenge; three
winning concepts were chosen/"

NSES Goal 2: Ensure the Federal Government Leads by Example

Challenges and Gaps

• Needing a comprehensive, government-wide policy on used federal electronics.

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• Encouraging electronics manufacturers to expand their product takeback programs using certified
recyclers.

• Encouraging the recipients of used federal equipment to use certified recyclers at the end of its useful
life and improving tracking the flow of used federal equipment through its life cycle, including posting
data.

• Directing federal government spending on electronics towards greener products to increase the
availability of sustainable electronics for all.

• Expanding the use and efficiency of intergovernmental cooperation agreements between agencies to
provide cost effective shipping of used electronics among responsible recycling and management.

• Characterizing and documenting markets and financial assistance opportunities associated with
managing and recycling of used electronics.

Activities and Accomplishments

• GSA issued Federal Management Regulation (FMR) Bulletin B-34, Disposal of Federal Electronic Assets™',
providing guidance on the management of electronics used by the federal government, including
requiring the use of certified refurbishers and recyclers, and prohibiting landfilling or incineration of
used electronics.

• GSA advanced Final Rule FMR 102-36 to

a federal agency. In FY16, six agencies

were using this System. Property valued over $6 million (original acquisition cost) was transferred
through use of this tool.

• GSA revised its reporting tool to capture more detailed information on how agencies are disposing of
their electronic assets. For example, the tool now captures if electronic assets are being sent to certified
recyclers in an attempt to identify where used electronics are sent.xvl"

• GSA released the guidance: Strategies for Incorporating Electronic Assets Take-Back Provisions in
Contracts and Leases"'", which had nearly 800 views on their website in the past year.

• EPA provided training on requirements to procure EPEAT8-registered products to the Federal
Interagency Sustainable Acquisition and Materials Management Workgroup, the Interagency Federal
Electronics Stewardship Working Group, the 2012 GreenGov Conference, and the AFCEA conference
organized by GSA. Agency-specific training was also provided to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Office
of Personnel Management, the Department of Treasury, the Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal
Service, GSA, DOE, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

• The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Category Management Policy 15-1: Improving the
Acguisition and Management of Common Information Technology: Laptops and Desktops. This Policy
directs federal agencies to ensure that 80% or more of all computer laptops and desktops are bought
using three major federal IT Government Wide Acquisition Contracts. All five of the standard

the point of final approval which
incorporated the provisions of FMR
Bulletin B-34. The Final Rule is under
internal review and comment.

Doing Our Part: Using Certified Recyclers

Federal agencies reported disposing of federal property
(including computers, laptops, and mobile devices) valued
at over $39M* to certified electronics refurbishers or
recyclers in FY15.

• GSA developed the Agency Asset

Management System""" to facilitate the
easy transfer of used electronics within

property is valued at Original Acquisition Cost (OAC))

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configurations in these contracts are required to be EPEAT81 gold registered and ENERGY STAR8
certified.

• OMB issued Category Management Policy 16-3: Improving the Acquisition and Management of Common
Information Technology: Mobile Devices and Services. This policy directs federal agencies to consolidate
procurement of mobile services, and establishes
the Mobile Services Category Management
Team. The team is responsible for integrating
sustainability requirements into current and
future federal mobile service solutions.

• In 2016. EPA published the Implementation
Study of the Electronics Recycling Standards: R2
and e-Steward!l The study examined the
implementation of the available electronics
recycling standards in the United States -
R2:2013 - The Responsible Recycling ("R2")

Standard for Electronics Recyclers8 and the e-
Stewards® Standard for Responsible Recycling
and Reuse of Electronics Equipment® (e-
Stewards9) - to assess if the programs were
transparent, consistent, and producing the
intended results. The study found that the
accreditation, certification, and implementation
of the programs are working well, though
opportunities for improvement exist. The study
offers over 40 suggested strategies for
consideration by an array of stakeholders in the
electronics recycling community to improve the overall effectiveness of implementation. The standard
owners are working to implement the recommendations to their programs, as appropriate.

• GSA and EPA are participating in the revision process for the R2 recycling standard. GSA and EPA have
been invited to participate in the revision process for the e-Stewards'' recycling standard when it begins

• EPA is finalizing the Minimum Environmental Criteria for Electronics Recycling Standards, which will
define the baseline for an electronics recycling standard to be considered acceptable for use by federal
agencies. This report will inform the implementation of GSA's pending rule mandating federal use of
certified recyclers. The final set of minimum criteria took into account available electronics recycling
standards and the recommendations in EPA's Implementation Study of the Electronic Recycling
Standards: R2 and e-Stev^ardsm'.

• The United States Postal Service (USPS) launched the BlueEarth1" Federal Recycling Program", a service
for transporting used electronics to certified electronics recyclers. Most federal agencies use the
BlueEarth program in their end-of-life management processes, and to provide free electronics and ink
and toner cartridge recycling to their employees and contractors. In 2014, 16 agencies were enrolled; as
of 2016, today there are 27 agencies enrolled. Electronic recycling activity reports are available to each
agency.

Benefits of Agencies Buying Green

In 2015, the U.S. government purchased more

than 2 million EPEAT" registered electronics.

Compared to non-EPEAT products, the use of

these electronics will, over their lifetime, provide

the following benefits:

• Save 16.7 million dollars of annual energy
costs

• Reduce energy use by 575,300 megawatt
hours of electricity, enough to power more
than 45,000 U.S. homes for a year

• Reduce 402,300 metric tons of air emission,
equivalent to taking 73,400 average cars off
U.S. roads for a year

• Reduce enough solid waste to equal the
amount produced by 2,350 U.S. households

» Eliminate 1489 metric tons of hazardous
waste from the waste stream

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NSES Goal 3 - Increase Safe, Effective Management and Handling of Used Electronics in the United States

Challenges and Gaps

Urban Mining

One metric ton of circuit boards can contain
40 to 800 times the amount of gold and 30
to 40 times the amount of copper compared
to one metric ton of virgin ore mined or
extracted in the US.

• Collaborating with stakeholders to increase used
electronics collection, and provide solutions to
electronics end-of-life management issues.

• Providing guidance to electronics recycling employers
on offering facilities that offer safe and healthy
working environments.

• Establishing approaches to gather, track, and provide

access to information on the quantity and movement and flow of electronics within the U.S.

Activities and Accomplishments

• Since 2014, the EPA's electronics
recycling (eCycling) webpages have
averaged 32,000 views per month,
equating to about 384,000 views each
year. These pages include information
for the public about the SMM Electronics
Challenge participants and their used
electronics collection programs, as well
as the awards received.

• Participants in EPA's SMM Electronics
Challenge have been recognized through
Champion Awards for their
achievements in addressing electronics
sustainability throughout the entire life cycle.

To date, honorees have been awarded for
implementing a uniquely robust used
electronics collection program in all fifty
states. They were also recognized for
developing a closed loop plastics recycling
stream for laptops, sustainable packaging
made from wheat straw and mushrooms, and
increasing recycled content and reducing
energy consumption in smartphones.

• EPA hosted the SMM Electronics Reuse and
Recycling Forum""1 with electronics
stakeholders to harness the collective power of
the electronics community and to identify
shared priorities to advance domestic end-of-
life electronics management. The top three

Industry Accepts the Challenge
EPA worked with industry stakeholders to launch a
voluntary partnership program called the Sustainable
Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge.
Since the program's inception in 2013, participants have
sent more than 710,000 tons of used electronics to
certified recyclers, resulting in the avoidance of more
than 1.8 million tons of C02 emissions. This represents
more than 18% of all used electronics collected in the
U.S. over the same time period.

U.S. Consumer Electronics Recycling Rate, 2009-2014

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2009

2010

2011 2012

Year

2013

2014

The 2014 electronics recycling rate can be found in

the Advancing Sustainable Materials Management:
Facts and Figures 2014 report.

areas participants were most interested in, and agreed would provide the largest positive change across
the life cycle of electronic products were:

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o Preventing improper management of hazardous materials and encouraging best management
practices.

o Improving design for repair, reuse and recycling.

o Identifying best practices for verifying and selecting recyclers and refurbishers that adhere to
responsible end-of-iife electronics management processes.

EPA launched and maintains a map of recyclers and refurbishers that are certified by third-party
electronics recycling certification programs.^

Certified Electronics Recyclers

Certified electronics recyclers are facilities that
have been certified through third-party audits to
be in conformance with the requirements of
electronics recycling standards. The two available
certification programs in the U.S. today are
R2:2013 - The Responsible Recycling ("R2")
Standard for Electronics Recyclers" and the e-
Stewards® Standard for Responsible Recycling and
Reuse of Electronics Equipment (e-Stewards®).
These standards provide criteria for the safe
management of used electronics and data security.

In 2015, an average of 761 people visited the
site each month, equating to approximately
9,137 visitors for the year.

The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) developed a :reen jobs
website'0"" which includes information on the
hazards and precautions to be taken at
electronics collection and recycling facilities.

EPA supported development of the United
Nations University's Solving the E-waste
Problem (StEP) e-Waste Worldmapxxlv to
provide country-level data on volumes of e-
waste and transboundary flows.

EPA continues to work on a model of domestic
electronics flows. FY16 marked the first full
year of this work, and ended with the
development of a proof-of-concept model and
methodology. The second phase of the project
is to identify existing data on electronics flows
to feed into the methodology, and to model
flows for a specific state. Work will continue
through FY19.

OSHA is finalizing a guidance document that
provides direction on safety and health
management for e-waste recycling. This
document is currently going through internal
review and is expected to be released in
2017.

As part of Bulletin B-34, GSA provided
guidance to federal agencies to advise
downstream recipients of used federal electronic assets on how to responsibly recycle them at the end
of their useful life.

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Since the launch of NSES in 2011, the number of
third-party certified recyclers has increased in the
United States by more than 600%, from
approximately 100 facilities to over 600 facilities.
Globally, there are now over 110 certified recyclers
located in 22 countries outside the U.S.

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NSES Goal 4: Reduce Harm from U.S. Exports of e-Waste and Improve Safe Handling of Used Electronics in

Developing Countries

Challenges and Gaps

• Needing information on trade flows and handling of used electronics, and facilitating the sharing of
information with federal and international agencies within legal limits.

• Providing technical assistance and establishing partnerships with developing nations to better manage
used electronics.

• Working with exporters to explore how to encourage safe handling of re-manufactured, recycled, and
used electronics in the U.S. and abroad.

• Proposing regulatory changes to improve compliance with existing regulations that govern cathode ray
tubes (CRTs), and providing more information on CRTs that are destined for reuse and recycling.

• Supporting ratification of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.

Activities and Accomplishments

• The U.S. International Trade Commission published Used Electronic Products: An Examination of U.S.
Exports,""v U.S. organizations reported $20.6 billion in
total sales of used electronics in 2011. This figure was
composed of $19.2 billion of domestic sales and U.S.
exports totaling $1.45 billion, or 7% of total sales.

• With funding from EPA, the United Nations StEP Initiative
(Solving the E-waste Problem), along with the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National
Center for Electronics Stewardship, published
Quantitative Characterization of Domestic and
Transboundary Flows of Used Electronics: Analysis of
Generation, Collection, and Export in the United States"""
and Transboundary movements of used and waste
electronic and electrical equipment: Estimates from the
European Union using trade statistics. "xv"

• EPA supported StEP in conducting an analysis of
Ethiopia's e-waste situation'0""", which resulted in
recommendations to develop a sustainable e-waste
recycling center, and the establishment of the E-waste
Management Project in Ethiopia.

• EPA and Taiwan worked together to lead the
International E-Waste Management Network'0"", which
enabled environmental officials from Asia, Africa, Latin
America, and the Caribbean to directly exchange best
practices of e-waste management.

• As a member of the Commission for Environmental
Cooperation, the U.S. government supported the now
completed project, Sound Management of Electronic

Informal to Formal Recycling

Through the "Border 2020: US-Mexico
Environmental Program" EPA is
collaborating with the Border
Environmental Cooperation Commission
(BECC) and other bi-national partners to
implement a three-year (2015-2017)
pilot project in Mexicali, Mexico
promoting safer e-waste recycling
practices including strategies to
transition the informal labor sector into
the formal labor economy. The project,
funded by the Inter-American
Development Bank thru BECC and Border
2020, has completed several activities
among them training of informal and
formal recyclers; community e-waste
collection events; a public outreach
campaign to raise awareness on e-waste
issues and best management practices;
and a literature and field assessment of
e-waste practices in Mexicali and globally
to inform the development of the
informal sector e-waste recycling
strategy.

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Wastes in North America.""" As part of the project, training was developed for North American small and
medium-size businesses who recycle and refurbish used and end-of-life electronics."""1 The initial training
sessions included over 120 recyclers from Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

• EPA published the final revisions to the Export Provisions of the Cathode Ray Tube Rule."""" The revisions
allow EPA to better track exports of CRTs for reuse and recycling in order to ensure safe management of
these materials. EPA developed and maintains a webpage listing companies that have been approved to
export whole CRTs, broken CRTs, or unprocessed CRT glass for recycling."""1" EPA also maintains a
webpage listing companies that have submitted written notifications to inform EPA of their intention to
export used, intact CRTs for reuse."""IV

• EPA developed and maintains a webpage of frequent questions and answers, to help ensure compliance
with CRT regulations."""7

• EPA proposed and finalized revisions to the export provisions of the CRT exclusion as part of the
Hazardous Waste Export-Import Revisions. These revisions 1) link the consent to export CRTs for
recycling with the electronic export information submitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and
2) convert CRT export notices for recycling and of annual reports on CRT exports for recycling to
electronic submissions by using EPA's Waste Import Export Tracking System. The final rule was
published on November 28, 2016, and became effective on 12/31/2016."""Vl

• The Commission for Environmental Cooperation implemented a study to estimate the quantity of used
computers and monitors that are generated, collected, and exported within, between, and from Canada,
Mexico, and the U.S., to the rest of the world. The study, entitled The Quantitative Characterization of
Domestic and Transboundary Flows of Used Electronic Products. Case Study: Used Computers and
Monitors in North America, was prepared by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other
academic institutions. The work was overseen by a steering committee of representatives from the EPA
and the environmental agencies of Canada and Mexico."""7"

Looking Ahead

Electronic devices and technologies continue to advance and increase in type and number. It is clear that our
society will continue to incorporate these devices into our daily activities and that electronics will increase
throughout our homes, automobiles, offices and the world. Our growing reliance on these products highlight the
need for us to take a long-term sustainable approach towards electronics stewardship, which is why the NSES
was first developed.

The NSES is the roadmap for the United States to ensure that electronics are designed, purchased and managed
in a sustainable manner that is protective of human health and the environment from harmful effects associated
with the unsafe handling and disposal of used electronics. It is encouraging that the NSES has accomplished so
much in the short six years it has been in existence, but more work is needed if we are to keep pace with the
emerging challenges that surround the constantly advancing electronics industry. New and existing issues,
knowledge gaps, and other challenges emphasize the continued need for a strong framework that addresses
electronics sustainability issues wherever and whenever they arise.

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