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UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
General Services Administration
Catskill Conference - August 25, 2011
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 Locations
• 7 processing factoriesAtwater, CA Fort Dix, NJLeavenworth, KS Lewisburg, PAMarianna, FL Texarkana, TXTucson, AZ
• 7 collection centersAtlanta, GA Denver, COMiami, FL Phoenix, AZSan Francisco, CA Sheridan, ORWashington, DC Fort Worth, TX (Oct, 2011)
• Multi-stakeholder group led by EPA
• Goal - develop safe & environmentally sound standards
• Result – “Responsible Recycling Practices for Electronics Recyclers” a.k.a. “R2”
• Ensures best practices & provides essential assurances to customers
• An electronics recycler may only be certified as meeting the R2 standards by a 3rd party auditor – very rigorous
Electronics RecyclingIndustry Standards – R2
UNICOR Recycling FactoriesR2 Certified
Lewisburg, PA – R2 Certified Leavenworth, KS – R2 Certified
Marianna, FL – R2 Certified Fort Dix, NJ – R2 Certified Texarkana, TX – Sept 1st (next week) Atwater, CA – Sept 30th
Tucson, AZ – Oct 19th
• Interagency task force co-chaired by:
• White House Council on Environmental Quality
• Environmental Protection Agency
• General Services Administration
National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship
• Report issued July 20th
• Four over-arching goals:
• Build incentives for design of greener electronics
• Ensure Federal Government leads by example
• Increase safe/effective management & handling of used electronics in U.S.
• Reduce harm from U.S. exports of e-waste; improve safe handling of used electronics in developing countries
National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship
• Ensure Federal Government leads by example
Establish policy on used Federal electronics to:
• Maximize re-use (UNICOR does!)
• Clear data stored on used equip (UNICOR does!)
• Ensure all Federal electronics processed by certified recyclers (UNICOR is R2 Certified!)
• Improve tracking used electronics throughout lifecycle – make data available (UNICOR does!)
National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship
UNICOR’s Solution
• Donation in lieu of abandonment and destruction
• Landfill - avoidance 43 million lbs of material collected in FY 2010
• 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
• Emphasized in National Strategy
• Hard drives wiped in accordance with Dept of Defense standard 5220.22-M• 3rd party forensic inspection - verifies
• Destruction – hard drives & other media shredded to no more than ¾ of inch
• FREE shipping (trailer loads)
• FREE refurbishment
• FREE recycling
• FREE data destruction
• Costs avoided!!!
Every pound of electronic material donated to UNICOR results in savings of $0.20 in Federal appropriations that would otherwise be required by Department of Justice for inmate program costs.
UNICOR - the BEST Optionfor Federal 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, Tivos, DVRs, MP3s)
• Games (X-box, Game Boy, Play station, Nintendo, Wii)
• Misc electronics (calculators, cameras, electronic scrap)
UNICOR - - Items NOT Accepted
• No Hazardous Equipment
• Oils / PCBs
• Acids
• Refrigerants
• Paints or liquids of any kind
• Radioactive material
UNICOREnvironmental Stewardship
• R2 Certified
• OSHA compliant
• Compliant with all Federal, state and local EPA regulations
• Full-time Safety Manager at each location
• 3RD party inspections
Todd BaldauDeputy General Manager
UNICOR Recycling Business Group(202) 353-2091 office(301) 536-8797 cell
www.unicor.gov/recycling/
Questions?