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E-Scrap News
January 5, 2010
In This Issue:
PRINTED WIRING BOARD PRICE HITS RECORD HIGH AGAIN
EPA SHORES UP TRANSBOUNDARY HAZARDOUS WASTE SHIPMENTS
NEW EU BATTERY DISPOSAL REGULATIONS
E-SCRAP LEGISLATION 2010 LAUNCH ROUNDUP
STATE AND LOCAL RECYCLERS AIM FOR COORDINATION
FACILITY NEWS
1 | Printed wiring board price hits record high again
December's price of $5.29 per pound was an all-time high for the value of
printed wiring board scrap. The record
setting price represents a 1.3 percent rise over November ? which was itself a
record high at $5.22 per pound ?
and a 52-percent increase versus December of the previous year.
This data represents the full metallic values of boards over time and
are not the recycling values, as
those values do not include the costs involved in actually extracting metal
from boards, including freight,
sampling charges, assay assessments, smelting, refining, process loss, return
on investment, and penalties for
various elements, including beryllium, bismuth and nickel.
These values are for the estimated intrinsic metal content of recovered
PC boards. Some consumers label
such material as mid-value. Lower-value scrap includes monitor and television
boards. Higher-value scrap includes
network and video cards, and motherboards.
The price for all of 2009 is $4.38 per pound, up 2.1 percent from the
2008 totals and up 15.5 percent
over 2007's price of $3.70 per pound.
2 | EPA shores up transboundary hazardous waste shipments
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week issued new regulations to
manage the shipping of hazardous
waste between the U.S. and the other 29 Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) nations.
The newly-issued final rule "aligns EPA's hazardous waste
import/export/transit shipment regulations
with the procedures" of the OECD ? the international organization with the
mandate to coordinate economic,
environmental, and social issues between member states.
The new rules revise existing regulations under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which
governs the shipment of hazardous waste within the U.S., and applies it to OECD
regulations. The changes include
requiring a certificate of waste recovery to be submitted by U.S. recovery
facilities, add both documentation and
tracking requirements to current regulations for recovery and recycling
facilities.
The RCRA regulations for spent lead-acid batteries (SLABs) were also
updated, adding export notification
and consent requirements "to provide stricter controls and greater transparency
for exports of SLABs to any
country, and should ensure that the batteries are sent to countries and
reclamation facilities in those countries
that can manage the SLABs in an environmentally sound manner," according to EPA.
3 | New EU battery disposal regulations
New European Union (EU) regulations will take effect February 1, 2010,
requiring battery producers to be
responsible for funding the collection and processing of scrap batteries in
member nations. New regulations
banning the disposal of batteries by landfill or incineration took effect
January 1, 2010.
The new collection rules, which are part of the EU's battery directive,
require that all producers of at
least one metric ton of any kind of battery in a calendar year be responsible
for paying for the collection and
processing of their wares. In the U.K., it means that all affected battery
producers will have to join, and pay
into, one of the country's seven compliance programs.
The U.K.'s battery recycling rates are among the worst in Western
Europe ? hovering at around three
percent ? and must be brought up to 25 percent by 2012, and 45 percent by 2016,
to be in line with the EU Battery
Directive mandates.
4 | E-scrap legislation 2010 launch roundup
Several states that passed legislation regarding the management of e-scrap came
into effect at the first of the
year.
Hawaii ? House Bill 1809: Amends current state program by adding
televisions to the recycling system.
Also, it deletes the annual sales of specialized computers provision for
manufacturers of electronic devices and
requires that all recycling programs for electronic devices be fully
implemented and operational by January 1st.
Illinois ? Senate Bill 2313: The Land of Lincoln's
manufacturer-responsibility program came into effect
on the first of the year.
Indiana ? HB 1589: Processors and collectors had to be enrolled in the
Hoosier State's e-scrap program by
January 1, 2010. The program launches on July 1st of this year.
Maine ? Legislative Document 1156: Changes the foundation for
television manufacturers' responsibility
for recycling televisions to a market-share basis.
North Carolina ? SB 1492: The Tar Heel state's producer-responsibility
e-scrap measure ? with HB 819
adding TVs to covered items ? launched January 1st.
Oregon ? HB 2626: A landfill ban on computers, monitors and televisions
took effect January 1st, with
penalties reaching $500 for each violation.
Wisconsin ? SB 107: Establishes a producer-responsibility system for
such electronics as computers,
computer monitors, printers, VCR players, televisions and cameras.
5 | State and local recyclers aim for coordination
Electronics recycling will be on the agenda at this week's Consumer Electronics
Show, with a formal announcement
of the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse (ERCC) ? a partnership
between the Northeast Recycling
Council and the National Center for Electronics Recycling. The ERCC, which will
be formally announced on
Thursday, is aiming to be a forum where state agencies implementing or
administering electronics recycling
programs can share information, address common challenges and coordinate
policies. The organization will also
collect and consolidate information on collection volumes and performance
measures, manufacturers, product types,
and return shares.
The organization is modeled on the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse,
an organization set up by NERC in
1992 to promote packaging legislation. Membership with the ERCC is reportedly
two-tiered, with states and local
governments administering or implementing electronics recycling programs
comprising the voting members and a
secondary group of producers, industry members and other organization forming a
non-voting affiliate membership.
More details are available here.
6 | Facility news
The non-profit Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center has announced that
Kuusakoski Philadelphia, LLC, will likely
site a new electronics recycling facility in the Philadelphia area. If all goes
as planned, the $10 million plant
should be operational by the end of 2010, creating approximately 30 jobs and
boasting an annual capacity of
15,000 tons of electronics annually.
The facility will be the first North American venture for parent
company, Kuusakoski Recycling Oy, of
Espoo, Finland, which also recently acquired Philadelphia-based scrap metal
exporter BGA Commodities, Inc.
Kuusakoski currently has over 100 service locations across China, Europe and
Taiwan.
The grand opening of a new IT asset management and recycling facility
operated by Toronto Recycling, Inc.
(TRI) will be held on February 17th. The new facility brings TRI's total
operational space at the Richmond Hill,
Ontario, site to 36,000 square feet, and offers secure destruction of data
using either Department of Defense
data wiping standards or hard drive shredding, in addition to management and
recycling options for CRTs, mercury
bulbs, ink cartridges and other hazardous products.
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