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Resources
EPA-Related Programs
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) 
is a tool designed to help institutional purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, laptops and monitors based on their environmental attributes with qualified product designations of bronze, silver, or gold.
Design for the Environment Program works with electronics manufacturers to incorporate environmental considerations into product design.
Energy Star Program promotes energy-efficient products through its labeling and education program.
Plug-In To eCycling is a partnership program between EPA and electronic manufacturers and retailers to increase awareness on ecycling and offer consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics. The program’s initiatives are intended to reflect shared responsibility among manufacturers, retailers, governments and consumers and illustrate how voluntary industry-led models or public-private partnerships can complement or provide models for state or municipality-led collection and recycling efforts.
WasteWise Program challenges its partners to set goals for reducing electronics and other wastes.
Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) is a partnership program that encourages federal facilities and agencies to: purchase greener electronic products; reduce impacts of electronic products during use; and manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally responsible manner.
GreenIT highlights EPA’s activities on reducing the environmental footprint of information technology.
Additional Resources
Electronics Recycling Web Portal - developed by the National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER), provides an abundance of information on electronics recycling. It also links to its affiliated sites: the centralized data repository, brand data management system, and the national electronics recycling infrastructure clearinghouse.
Electronics Take Back Coalition is a campaign that promotes electronics take-back programs and raises awareness on electronics recycling issues.
Consumer Electronics Association: My Green Electronics - a resource for consumers wishing to purchase green products and/or searching for local opportunities to recycle or donate used electronics.
Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA) Consumer Education Initiative - provides consumers with information on reuse and recycling opportunities for used electronics.
International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER) - a searchable directory of the electronics recycling industry.
Publications
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Donate or Recycle Electronics: eCycle (PDF) (2 pp, 1.5MB)
This brochure describes the Plug-In To eCycling campaign and provides
resources for recycling your unwanted electronic equipment; the insert encourages cell phone recycling.
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.
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.
Profile of the Electronics and Computer Industry - Data Refresh
This data refresh feature enables users to obtain the most current emissions data from the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and compliance and enforcement data for the electronics and computer industry. It was developed to update the 1995 industry sector profile document.
Responsible Recycling Pratices
This page provides information about the document Responsible Recycling (R2) Practices for Use in Accredited Certification Programs, which provides a set of guidelines for accredited certification programs to assess electronics recyclers’ environmental, worker health and safety, and security practices. Since January 2006, EPA has facilitated a multi-stakeholder group consisting of states, e-manufacturers, e-recyclers, trade associations and public interest groups to develop the Responsible Recycling Practices.
Recycling Technology Products: An Overview of E-Waste Policy Issues
This 2006 Department of Commerce report was 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.
