ISRI APPROVES ELECTRONICS RECYCLING OPERATING PRINCIPLES
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) board of directors has unanimously approved the association’s new Electronics Recycling Operating Practices.
ISRI’s Electronics Recycling Council has worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other industry stakeholders to develop the document, which it says outlines the best practices for the electronics recycling industry.
ISRI says its voluntary electronics recycling practices can be used by companies that would like to ensure that obsolete electronics and their constituent materials are recycled "in compliance with all applicable environmental, health and safety regulations and in a manner that protects the global environment and the health and safety of workers in the United States and other countries."
ISRI’s Electronics Council designed the guidelines to be incorporated by reference into the association’s Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS), which integrates industry-specific standards into an environmental, quality and health and safety management system. The ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board has agreed to develop and administer an accreditation system for RIOS certifiers.
More information about ISRI’s Electronics Recycling Operating Practices and RIOS is available at www.isri.org.
METECH ADDS PROCESSING LINE
Electronics recycler Metech International has added a new processing line at its Worcester, Mass., facility.
According to Metech, the line will help it better serve its customers by providing high-volume product destruction and material recovery services. The new line, which cost more than $1.25 million dollars, is designed to shred and process end-of-life electronics into basic metallic and nonmetallic constituents.
"The installation of this processing line reinforces our commitment to the responsible handling of electronic materials," Metech President Sam Advani says in a press release. "This line supports our guarantee to customers of environmentally correct and secure product destruction and the efficient and economical recovery of the contained materials," he adds.
The company also recently announced the renewal of its ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certifications. Metech also renewed its International Association of Electronics Recyclers Certified Electronics Recycler certifications at its Worcester and Gilroy, Calif., facilities. The company’s Penang, Malaysia, plant is also ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified.
Metech, a recycler of electronic industrial manufacturing scrap, obsolete inventory, end-of-life electronics and non-conforming materials, is based in Worcester. Through its Accountable Resource Management program, the company manages the reuse, recycling or disposition of its customers’ electronics while safeguarding their intellectual property.
More information is available at www.metechgroup.com.
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