Reuse and RecyclingSean Nicholson

Reuse – the forgotten R

In contrast with many home appliances, life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated by

production (81%) as opposed to operation (19%).

(2004) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15573621

www.microsoft.com/refurbishedpcs

Reuse for economic opportunity

http://raceonline2012.org/manifesto/7 http://www.connect2compete.org/

Reuse helps people

Despite difficulties in obtaining data on new and used EEE as statistical data does not distinguish between these two categories of products, the studies in Ghana, for example, revealed that in 2009 around 70% of all imports were used EEE. 30% of the used EEE imported was determined to be non-functioning (hence should have been defined as e-waste): half of this amount was repaired locally and sold to consumers and the other half was un-repairable. http://www.basel.int/Portals/4/download.aspx?d=UNEP-CHW-EWASTE-PUB-WeeAfricaReport.English.pdf

The Strategic problem is not OECD Exports of used EEE

Forecasting Global Generation of Obsolete Personal Computers Jinglei Yu, Eric Williams, Meiting Ju and Yan Yang (March 2010)

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903350q

How do we drive more electronics through certified reuse and recycling channels.

Why use a certified disposal channel?

To Avoid Risk - Data, Legal

To get money back

To help the planet

Local Reuse & Disassembly can scale easily to feed regional recycling

Thank Youseannich@microsoft.com