9 Apr
Rocky Mountain Chapter HDI members get a tour of LifeSpan's warehouse facility.
The Rocky Mountain Chapter of HDI met at LifeSpan for their February meeting. It included a tour and a presentation from company President Dag Adamson. They featured the meeting in their quarterly newsletter, which you can view here. LifeSpan was delighted to host the group!
11 Nov
Raytheon and Lifespan celebrated Americas Recycles Day in Denver. Raytheon sponsored an employee recycling event for their employees and contractors at their Denver campus.
Chris from LifeSpan unloading Raytheon Employee Car
“We were extremely lucky with the weather! It was a beautiful 60 degree day for the event – last week we had close to six inches of snow on the ground here in the Rockies,” said Kristi Tirone, Sales Associate.
While Raytheon sponsored just the first 50 employees with free recycling, many employees were relieved that could have the convenience of bringing electronics to work to have proper data destruction and electronics recycling.
Started in 1997, America Recycles Day is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling in the United States.
“LifeSpan is committed to working with its customers to offer creative data destruction and e-recycling programs to meet the needs of their business and their employees. Earth Day is in the spring and we hope to continue to support additional events then as well,” said Dag Adamson, President of LifeSpan.
If you are interested in conducting an Earth Day event in the spring please contact LifeSpan at 888 720 0900. Its never to soon to start planning!
7 Oct
R2 Solutions Launched as New Non-Profit Organization for Managing Comprehensive R2 Certification Practices Program for Responsible Recycling of Electronic Scrap
Washington, D.C. — The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc (ISRI) and its more than 1,550 members join in supporting the announcement of the creation of R2 Solutions, a stand-alone, non-profit organization formed to manage and continually develop the Responsible Recycling (R2) Certified Electronics Recycler® Program within the Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS).
R2 Solutions will oversee the R2 Practices which provides a comprehensive set of standards for electronics recyclers that require responsible management of used computers and consumer electronics. The R2 Practices, were developed under the aegis of an EPA facilitated, multi-stakeholder process that has been accredited by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board as a third party auditable global standard.
To date, there are 21 electronics recycling facilities certified to the R2 Practices – a set of requirements that establishes a high bar for quality, environmental protection, health & safety, and data security, and that precludes shipping of hazardous materials to countries that have laws prohibiting their import.
“ISRI, as one of the original supporters of the R2 Practices, applauds the creation of R2 Solutions as a stand-alone, non-profit organization, whose sole purpose is to manage and sustainably develop the R2 Practices in an open, transparent manner,” stated Robin Wiener, president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). “We firmly believe that a neutral, third-party organization such as R2 Solutions is a more appropriate administrator of the R2 Program going forward, and we [ISRI] look forward to its progress in advancing responsible electronics recycling globally.”
The newly created R2 Solutions body will manage continual development of R2 Practices, with standards development and stakeholder consultations on R2 Practices publicly available. A full set of standards is available at www.r2solutions.org.
With the creation of R2 Solutions, a governance structure embraced by the EPA, vendors can now have confidence that used electronic equipment is being recycled safely and responsibly by accredited recyclers.
R2 Solutions will act as the Secretariat for the R2 Standard, and the governing council empanelled by R2 Solutions will operate under a set of bylaws that will require a decision-making forum, including an appeals process, in which all interested stakeholders may participate. T
he Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and its more than 1,550 members represents over 350 electronics refurbishers and recyclers ISRI has been a charter member of the R2 efforts since its inception and offers R2 certification as part of its Certified Electronics Recycler® Program. (www.CertifiedElectronicsRecycler.com)
19 May
In this piece on NextGov.com, Emily Long details how “Contractors responsible for recycling government computers and other electronic equipment aren’t held accountable to certification standards and environmental regulations”. The issue has been brought to the attention of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns, who has “asked EPA for details on its plan to enforce recycling regulations and for more information about audits and inspections of e-waste recyclers. Towns asked GSA to explain the criteria used to select recycling contractors and whether it plans to issue new guidance for safe disposal certification.”
Long noted that only 2 of 60 e-waste recyclers in the GSA’s Schedule 899-5 meet the criteria for the EPA’s new responsible recycling program, R2.
If you would like more information on R2/RIOS, please email: info@lifespanrecycling.com.
12 May
The new SEED program allows students at UNH to retire their surplus computer equipment with piece of mind knowing that LifeSpan will be providing secure data destruction and compliant recycling of all assets.
Read more here: Electronic Equipment Disposal: UNH IT Announces New Program.
12 May
60 Minutes expose on how some recycling companies are illegally exporting E-Waste and not properly processing it domestically:
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