UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

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

• Supports small businesses (more

than 60% of UNICOR purchases)

• Essential to maintaining safe and

secure correctional facilities

UNICOR – 7 Business Groups

Clothing/Textiles

Electronics

Fleet Solutions

Industrial Products

Office Furniture

Recycling

Services

UNICOR Recycling Business GroupLocations

• 7 processing factoriesAtwater, CA Fort Dix, NJLeavenworth, KS Lewisburg, PAMarianna, FL Texarkana, TXTucson, AZ

• 7 collection centersAtlanta, GA Denver, COMiami, FL Phoenix, AZDublin, CA Sheridan, ORWashington, DC

UNICOR’s Solution

• Donation in lieu of abandonment and destruction

• Benefits the donor (agency, company, or individual), the environment, and public safety & health

Accepted Items

• Computer equipment (desktops, laptops, printers monitors, mainframes/servers, monitors, 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, Tivos, DVRs, MP3s)

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

• Misc electronics (calculators, cameras, electronic scrap)

Items NOT Accepted

• No Hazardous Equipment

• Oils / PCBs

• Acids

• Refrigerants

• Paints or liquids of any kind

• Radioactive material

• Recycling / Sorting

• Testing

• Reconditioning / Refurbishing

• Component Recovery

• Residual Material Recovery

• FY 2009 – 39 million lbs

• FY 2010 – 43 million lbs

• FY 2011 (to date) – 18.9 million lbs

UNICOR Recycling Business GroupProcess for Incoming Material

Responsible Recycling Practices for Electronics Recyclers (R2)

• R2 Certified! (Lewisburg – 4/15/11)

• R2 underway (Leavenworth & Marianna)

• R2 within 6 months (Ft Dix, Texarkana,

Tucson, Atwater)• ISO-9001:2008 – all factories

UNICOREnvironmental Stewardship

• OSHA compliant

• Compliant with all Federal, State and local EPA regulations

• Full-time Safety Manager at each location

• 3RD party inspections

UNICOR - Data Security

• Hard drive & data destruction

• Hard drive wipe

• Meets Department of Defense 5220.22-M Standard

Janice AragonProgram Manager

UNICOR Recycling Business Group(202) 305-3768 office

209-564-6890 celljaragon@central.unicor.gov

www.unicor.gov/recycling/

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