ISRI Partners with State Electronics Challenge to Boost Electronics Recycling

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has joined as the first official sponsor of the State Electronics Challenge (SEC), which aims to encourage state, regional and local governments to responsibly recycle outdated and obsolete electronics.

"We at ISRI are extremely excited to be working with the State Electronics Challenge to promote the responsible recycling of obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way," says Robin Wiener, ISRI president in a press announcement.

"ISRI, as the largest organization of responsible electronic recyclers in the world, is a logical partner to work with the vast numbers of regional, state, and local governments to address the growing volumes of discarded electronics," Wiener adds.

The SEC is a voluntary program that encourages state, regional and local governments to purchase greener electronic products, reduce the impacts of electronic products during use, along with managing obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.  It provides resources to help state, local, and regional governments and agencies to become leaders in responsibly recycling electronics and face the new challenges posed by the growing numbers of discarded electronic products.

"We look forward to working with these governments and their agencies to demonstrate how they can adopt responsible recycling initiatives that offer the best and most effective way of handling the issue of electronic scrap," Wiener adds. "ISRI and the R2/RIOS program offer state, local and regional governments real, workable solutions that they can easily embrace and incorporate into their environmental stewardship programs."

The SEC is modeled after the Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC), which was created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive. The SEC is administered by the Northeast Recycling Council, Inc.