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NEPSIThe National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI), is a multi-stakeholder dialogue, involving the electronics industry, government, environmental groups, recyclers, and others, with an agreed-upon goal to "develop a system, which includes a viable financing mechanism, to maximize the collection, reuse and recycling of used electronics, while considering appropriate incentives to design products that facilitate source reduction, reuse and recycling; reduce toxicity; and increase recycled content." The dialogue began in June 2001, and the group has agreed to meet six times over the next year. The University of Tennessee's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT) is coordinating the NEPSI process under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NEPSI consists of 45 participants, including representatives of 12 electronics companies, the Electronics Industry Alliance, 12 state and local governments, EPA, 5 recycling companies, 2 computer product retailers, several non-profit associations and advocacy groups, and WEPSI. WEPSI will provide a channel for Western stakeholders to provide input on a national solution. NEPSI is addressing an initial set of electronic products including televisions, computer monitors and CPUs, and computer peripherals. For information regarding NEPSI, contact Catherine Wilt at 865-974-1915 or catwilt@utk.edu; or visit http://www.nepsi.org.
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