UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

NPMA - Federal Center Chapter Workshop

January 28, 2015 – Arlington, VA

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

• Component of Federal Bureau of Prisons

• Established in 1934 by statute & Executive Order

• Provides training & work experience to Federal inmates

• Receives NO appropriations – entirely self-sustaining

• Trade name - UNICOR

UNICOR’s Positive Impact

• Inmates in UNICOR are 24% less likely to recidivate upon release

• Also 12% more likely to find and

maintain employment upon release

• FY 2014 – 39 million pounds of

e-waste avoided going to landfills

UNICOR Recycling Locations

• 7 processing factories Atwater, CA Fort Dix, NJ Leavenworth, KS Lewisburg, PA Marianna, FL Texarkana, TX Tucson, AZ

• 8 collection centers Atlanta, GA Denver, CO Fort Worth, TX Miami, FL Phoenix, AZ San Francisco, CA Sheridan, OR Washington, DC Devens, MA – February, 2015 New York City (Brooklyn Navy Yard) – February, 2015

UNICOR Recycling FactoriesR2:2013 Certified

Lewisburg, PA – Certified Leavenworth, KS – Certified

Marianna, FL – Certified Fort Dix, NJ – Certified Texarkana, TX – Certified Tucson, AZ – Certified

Atwater, CA – Certified

UNICOR Recycling FactoriesAdditional Certifications

ISO 9001 – Quality

ISO 14001 – Environmental Management

OHSAS 18001 – Occupational Health & Safety

• All Federal Government Departments/Agencies

• Contractors Utilizing Federal Equipment

• State/Local/Municipal Governments

• Charitable/Non-Profit/Civic Groups/Orgs

• School Systems & Private/Public Schools

• Private Companies

• Individuals

UNICOR Authorized to ReceiveMaterial from any Source in U.S.

UNICOR’s Solution

• Donation in lieu of abandonment and destruction

• Landfill - avoidance 39 million lbs of material collected in FY 2014

• Benefits the donating agency, the environment, and public safety & health

• Shipping

• Sorting

• Testing

• Reconditioning / Refurbishing

• Component Recovery

• Residual Material Recovery

UNICOR RecyclingProcess for Incoming Material

UNICOR - Data Security

• All hard drives and media-storage devices from Federal Government agencies are destroyed via shredding.

• Shredders grind all media storage devices into sizes no larger than ¾ of inch

• Hard drives, cell phones, thumb drives

UNICOR – Material Tracking

• Track FEA by agency & location, item, serial number, and disposition • Agency/Office name• Location (city, state)• Type of item (monitor, printer, computer, phone)• Serial #• Refurbished for reuse or de-manufactured for scrap

• Accountable property, whole items (no peripheral item or components)

• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

• Official determination – “Contributions to FPI are tax-deductible under section 170(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, provided that the contributions are made for exclusively public purposes.”

• Item donated to UNICOR for recycling = tax deduction

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Donations to UNICOR

• Full Truck (24 pallets) – Free from any location

• Washington, DC area – any material (no minimum)

(Baltimore to Northern Virginia)

• UNICOR factory locations and

collection locations (no minimum)

• Remote locations – UNICOR teaming w/ state governments

UNICOR - Free Shipping or Pick-up

• FREE shipping from any location (full trailer load)

• FREE pick-up (Wash, DC area – all collection locations)

• FREE refurbishment

• FREE recycling

• FREE data destruction

• Costs avoided!!!

Each pound of electronic material donated to UNICOR results in significant savings in appropriations otherwise required by the Dept of Justice for inmate program costs.

UNICOR – Your Full-ServiceOption for E-Waste Disposal

UNICOR -- Accepted Items

• Computer equipment (desktops, laptops, printers, monitors, mainframes/servers, modems, CD-ROM drives, plotters, circuit boards, memory sticks/boards, hard/floppy drives)

• Office equipment (copiers, fax machines, shredders, power strips)

• Communication equipment (cell phones, Blackberrys, PDAs )

• A/V equipment (TVs, radios, cable boxes, TiVo's, DVRs, MP3s)

• Games (X-box, Game Boy, Play station, Nintendo, Wii)

• Other devices w/ circuit boards (calculators, cameras)

UNICOR -- Accepted Items (con’t)

• Metal equipment (metal file cabinets, metal storage cabinets, metal lockers, metal shelving, metal folding chairs, metal typewriters)

• Batteries (all types of batteries except for alkaline batteries. For example, UNICOR accepts lead acid batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries, lithium batteries, carbon-zinc batteries, etc.)

• Communication Wire (copper wire, phone wire, coaxial cable, and computer wire are all accepted, but no fiber optic cable)

UNICOR RecyclingItems NOT Accepted

• No furniture with any wood or fabric

• No tapes of any kind – VCR tapes, backup tapes

• No Hazardous Equipment

• Oils / PCBs

• Acids

• Refrigerants

• Paints or liquids of any kind

• Radioactive material

UNICOREnvironmental Stewardship

• R2 Certified (also ISO 9001, 14001 & OHSAS 18001)

• OSHA compliant

• Compliant with all Federal, state and local environmental regulations

• Full-time Safety Manager at each location

• 3RD party audits

Todd BaldauDeputy General Manager

UNICOR Recycling Business Group(202) 353-2091 office(301) 536-8797 cell

Todd.Baldau@usdoj.gov

www.unicor.gov/recycling/

Questions?

Antwoine DavisProgram Manager

UNICOR Recycling Business Group(202) 305-3953 office(202) 309-9836 cell

Antwoine.Davis@usdoj.gov

www.unicor.gov/recycling/

Questions?