Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative – Towards...

Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative –

Towards sustainable solutions

John Dickenson, AERCCR Extended Producer Responsibility Solu<ons

WEEE Interna*onal Seminar 2011 Porto Digital

22-‐24 February 2011, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

2/28/11 StEP – SOLVING THE E-WASTE PROBLEM 2

StEP...

Func<ons as a network of actors who share

experiences and best prac<ces,

Carries out research and development projects,

Disseminates experiences, best prac<ces and

recommenda<ons.

StEP Objective

Solving the E-‐waste Problem (StEP) Ini*a*ve was created to…

Ini<ate and facilitate environmentally, economically & socially sound

approaches to reduce e-‐waste flows and handle them in a sustainable way

around the globe.


Volumes:

• Increasing sales of electronics, decreasing life<mes

• App. 42 million tonnes e-‐waste generated worldwide

• EU-‐27 in 2009: 10.6 Mt on market, app. 8.8 million tons generated, only 2.9 million tons 'officially collected'

Exports:

• As dona<ons/2nd hand, oSen illegal

• Mainly to Asia (China, India, Pakistan, Vietnam), Africa (Nigeria & neighboring Western Africa, Northern Africa), Eastern Europe

E-Waste - A Significant Challenge


Dangers

• Re-‐use/repair of some devices, but low probability of state-‐of-‐art recycling at end-‐of-‐life

• Backyard recycling with high environmental & health impacts and low yields

/efficiency

• Soil & water contamina<on

from chemical disposal

• Toxic emissions from

burning of materials

E-Waste - A Significant Challenge

©Empa, Switzerland

Total Au-recovery efficiency only ≈ 25%, while environmental & health damage is dramatic (Rochat, Keller, EMPA 2007)


StEP Core Principles

1. StEP's work is founded on scien*fic assessments including

social, environmental and economic aspects

2. StEP conducts research on the en*re life-‐cycle of electronic

and electrical equipment

3. StEP's research and pilot projects are meant to contribute to

the solu*on of e-‐waste problems

4. StEP condemns all illegal ac*vi*es related to e-‐waste

including illegal shipments

5. StEP seeks to foster safe and eco/energy-‐efficient reuse and

recycling prac*ces around the globe in a socially responsible

manner

Membership

StEP invites pro-‐ac<ve: Companies;

Governmental Organisa*ons;

Non-‐governmental Organisa*ons (NGOs);

Interna*onal Organisa*ons; and

Academic Ins*tu*ons

from around the world to become a member

Members have to agree to the StEP principles through signing a Memorandum of Understanding

Membership Overview (November 2010)

Interna*onal Organisa*ons Basel Conven<on Coordina<ng Centre For Training and

Technology Transfer For The African Region Basel Conven<on Coordina<ng Centre for Asia & the Pacific Center for Environment and Development for the Arab

Region and Europe (CEDARE)

Secretariat of the Basel Conven<on (SBC) United Na<ons Conference on Trade and Development

(UNCTAD)

United Na<ons Environment Programme (UNEP) United Na<ons Industrial Deelopment Organiza<on

(UNIDO) United Na<ons University (UNU)

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MicroPro Na<onal Center for Electronics

Recycling Nokia Philips Consumer Lifestyle PT PLUS KG Renewable Recyclers Sims Recycling Solu<ons Taizhou Chiho Tiande Umicore Precious Metal

Refining

Governmental and Development Coopera*on

German Technical Coopera<on (GTZ)

Swiss State Secretariat of Economics (SECO)

United States Environmental Protec<on Agency (US-‐EPA)

Enda Europe*

Academia & Research

Austrian Society for Systems Engineering and Automa<on (SAT)

BIO Intelligence Service Chinese Acadamy of Sciences (CAS) DelS University of Technology GAIKER Founda<on Griffith University

Ins<tute for Applied Ecology (Öko-‐Ins<tut) Federal Laboratory for Materials Tes<ng and Research (EMPA)

Fraunhofer Ins<tute for Reliability and Microintegra<on (IZM) Korea Ins<tute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM)

Massachuseks Ins<tute of Technology (MIT)

Rifer Environmental

Sustainable Electronic Ini<a<ve at the University of Illinois Technical University of Braunschweig Techsoup TELECOM & Management Sud Paris

Thai Electrical and Electronic Ins<tute University of Limerick

WEEE Forum*

3P Consor<um for Sustainable Management

Industry

AER Worldwide Cisco Systems Ltd. Compliance & Risks

Dataserv Ltd. Datec Technologies Dell Ericsson Flec<on GOAB mbH Hewlek Packard (HP) * Associate Member


SECRETARIAT (UNU)

STEERING COMMITTEE

StEP GENERAL ASSEMBLY

How we work…

Task Force Policy & Legisla*on

Task Force ReDesign

Task Force ReUse

Task Force ReCycling

Task Force Capacity Building

Analyzes the status of exis*ng policy approaches on e-‐waste, and elaborates

policy recommenda*ons for future

developments...

… dedicated to product design

aspects to reduce nega*ve impacts of the en*re life cycle of electronics…

… defines globally consistent “re-‐use” prac*ces and

standards to enhance re-‐use opportuni*es, change consumer behaviour & reduce „sham re-‐use“…

… overall aim is to enhance global recycling

infrastructures and technologies to realise a sustainable e-‐waste recycling…

REGIONAL FOCAL POINTS

… aims at increasing public, scien*fic and business awareness, dissemina*ng the results of TFs 1 – 4 and engage in training…

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www.step-‐ini<a<ve.org/publica<ons

Selected Work Results: Publications

10

• Contents:

- Basic Principles

- Key Requirements

- Their Audi<ng and Cer<fica<on

- Na<onal and Interna<onal Implementa<on of Standards

WP is NOT a standard!

WP gives guidance to stakeholders senng up standards

WP shall reflect StEP‘s posi<on on what standards should regulate and how they

should be implemented

Final review round, publica*on expected by end of this year

Selected Work Results: WP EOL Standard

StEP White Paper `Standards for EoL-‐Opera*ons of EEE`

Project: Best prac*ces in Reuse

• Seed funded StEP project of TF ReUse

• Joint project supervision by EMPA and Technical University Braunschweig

• Objec<ves:

1. Develop a generic descrip<on form for reuse business models 2. Iden<fy generic barriers and success factors for reuse business models 3. Provide the basis for the development of a global cer7fica7on standard for

reuse business models

• Project subgroup formed, consis<ng of: - Claudia Lüpschen (UNU) - Tobias Luger (TU Braunschweig) - Stefan Andrew (TU Braunschweig) - John Dickenson (AER Worldwide) - Colin Fitzpatrick (University of Limerick) - Maurice O’Connell (University of Limerick)

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Selected Work Results: Best Practices in Reuse

- Jean Cox-‐Kearns (Dell) - Marie Zide (Ericsson) - Clemen<ne O'Connor (Bio

Intelligence Service) - Heinz Böni (EMPA) - Ramon Kissling (EMPA)

Project kick-‐off in mid August 2010, final report due in February 2011


Selected Work Results: E-waste Summer School


• Promote innova<ve scien<fic e-‐waste research • Establish an interna<onal research agenda • Develop a mul<disciplinary network of young scholars • Link young researchers to experts from industry, academia and policy decision-‐

making

Summer School 2010: • 29 August – 7 September 2010 in

Eindhoven/Hoboken • Expert lectures, workshops and

groupwork • Organised by United Na<ons University • Supported by NVMP, Philips, Empa and

Umicore www.step-initiative.org/summerschool

NVMP-‐StEP E-‐waste Summer School Series 2009 & 2010

Concept for Summer School Series 2011/2012 under revision

Poten*ally alterna*ng target groups (SME‘s & government officials)

Recycling Trainer-‐online: What is it?

• Web-‐based mul<media self-‐learning / training and informa<on system for e-‐waste recycling

• Developed by StEP member Goab: www.recycling-‐trainer.eu

• Database structure • Web-‐u<liza<on via DSL-‐connec<on

• Learning-‐management-‐system allows user-‐specific configura<on through a training instructor

• System provides possibility to create user-‐specific mul<ple-‐choice-‐tests

• Currently available in German and English

• At this <me content based on EU guidelines (WEEE)

Selected Work Results: Recycling Trainer


Selected Work Results: Recycling Trainer

Primary target group

Mainly new employees in e-‐waste recycling…

...oSen: -‐ unskilled, without knowledge/experience in recycling

-‐ with poor knowledge of the na<onal language

-‐ without PC experience

?

Philosophy of Recycling-‐Trainer

-‐ Highest possible visualiza<on of the topics

-‐ Providing knowledge through combina<on of picture, video, text and audio

-‐ Short clear texts, clear, slowly spoken language

-‐ Clear, well arranged design of opera<onal controls

-‐ Modular structure of contents, easy to exchange or to supplement


Revision/extension of Recycling Trainer-‐online for use in developing countries Project proposal for revision ready, funding acquisi*on ongoing

Selected Work Results: ADDRESS

Objec*ves: - To inform e-‐waste related research with up-‐to-‐date and solid data on e-‐waste globally - To enable policy-‐makers to make beker informed decisions

Part 1: Global e-‐waste amounts Provide data for science-‐/data-‐based research work on e-‐waste globally

1a. Input module, data inventory 1b. Modelling module 1c. Presenta<on / repor<ng on global quan<<es

Part 2: Country benchmarking Provide feedback to various regions in the world on details and best prac<ces as well as the performance per country over <me

2a. Benchmark development and applica<on 2b. Publishing Benchmark outcomes

Part 3: Informa*on Hub Providing e-‐waste related informa<on online per country over <me

3a. Gathering country info 3b. Publishing the global e-‐waste status annually

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ADDRESS: Annual Dynamic Digital Repor*ng on the global E-‐waSte Status


Selected Work Results: ADDRESS

ADDRESS subgroup:

CEDARE C&R EMPA WEEE Forum MIT TELECOM & Man. Thai EEI Umicore UNU US-EPA

Next steps:

Vision! Break down into smaller tasks (e.g. regional proposals)


Conclusions

• Knowledge hub for e-‐waste related issues

• Interna<onal e-‐waste knowledge transfer

• Mul<-‐stakeholder approach

• Holis<c view • Based on scien<fic assessment

• Pragma<c and problem-‐oriented


John Dickenson

AERCCR

EPR Solu<ons

42840 Christy St., Suite 205

Fremont, California 94538

+1 510 812 4303

[email protected]

www.aerccr.com

CONTACT


StEP Secretariat

c/o UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY

Ins<tute for Sustainability and Peace

(UNU-‐ISP SCYCLE)

53113 Bonn / Germany

+49-‐228-‐815-‐0213/-‐0214

+49-‐228-‐815-‐0299

www.step-‐ini<a<ve.org

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