The Responsible Recycling or R2 Practice is specially designed for electronic recyclers and it sets forth the standards for environmental, health and safety, and security requirements applicable in the electronic recycling industry. R2 focuses on end-of-life electronics recycling with a special focus on the downstream of recycled materials.
Benefits OF R2 Certification
There is an increasing legal requirement for Electronic Recyclers to achieve Recycling Certification. The Federal Government has banned its agencies from incinerator or landfill disposal of electronic waste and required them to use third party certified electronic scrap recyclers. In addition to that about 25 States in the U.S has adopted electronic scrap recycling legislations.
- Even if the e-waste is recycled by a non-certified recycler, it may result in health and environmental risks to workers from hazardous and toxic materials and security risks to data destruction. Getting R2 certified enables a recycler to mitigate risks.
- Private corporations are now also requiring recycling certified organizations to manage their electronic scrap. A recycler can become a preferred supplier by getting R2 certification and will become eligible to bid for Federal, State and Corporate tenders.
- Vendors having R2 responsible Recycling Certification give assurance to government departments, corporate sector and individuals the surety that their e-waste will be disposed off in a responsible manner.
- The recycler gets a complete environmental, health and safety management system when he achieves the R2 Certification.
- It leads to improved recovery planning and better material management.
R2 certification ensures due diligence throughout the downstream recycling chain leading to improved traceability and accountability. - It also leads to reduced insurance requirements and costs due to better control of risks.
Community relations are improved as they have an assurance that the environment will not be damaged. - It also results in reduced accidents and injury incidents and reduces short and long-term liabilities by implementing preventive action procedures.
- Improves downstream due-diligence for customers with end-of-life electronics
Finally, R2 Certification leads to decreased processing costs which increases profitability of the e-waste recycler.
