Resources

Electronic Industries Alliance
http://www.eia.org
A U.S. national trade organization.

Electronic Industries Alliance Consumer Education Initiative
http://www.eiae.org
Consumer information about recycling and reuse opportunities for used electronics.

International Association of Electronics Recyclers
http://www.iaer.org

Information about how to recycle your computer or computer accessory.

P.E.P. National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs
http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html
A comprehensive list of computer recycling programs around the world.

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/epr
Background and links for product stewardship and extended product responsibility.

Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool Project
http://www.epeat.net
An outgrowth of the WEPSI dialogue, the EPEAT project will develop an assessment tool that will advise procurement officials regarding the environmental attributes of personal computing devices.

The Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/clean/

GrassRoots Recycling Network
http://www.grrn.org

*Materials for the Future Foundation
http://www.materials4future.org/

National Recycling Coalition
http://www.nrc-recycle.org/programs/electronics/
Electronics recycling initiative.

National Safety Council, Environmental Health Center
http://www.nsc.org/ehc.htm
Electronics Products Recovery and Recycling (EPR2) Conference.

Northeast Recycling Council (NERC)
http://www.nerc.org/

*Northwest Product Stewardship Council
http://www.govlink.org/nwpsc/
Contains "A Guide to Environmentally Preferable Computer Purchasing."

Repair, Resale and Reuse Council (Technical Council of the California Resource Recovery Association)
http://www.crra.com/rrarc/index.html
Brings attention to the reuse and repair industries and businesses in California and the important contributions that these companies make to source reduction through refurbishing and selling goods that might otherwise be landfilled.

*Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
http://www.svtc.org/

*Washington Department of Ecology
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/sustainability/Resources/prod_steward.htm

What Local Governments Can Do to Encourage Product Stewardship
(Power Point Presentation)
Presented by Sego Jackson, Principal Planner, Snohomish County, WA, at the Northeast Recycling Council's "Setting Up Electronics Collection Programs," in Boston, Massachusetts, November 7, 2001.

Considerations for Local Communities, Related to Collection of
Used Electronic Products
by the Northwest Product Stewardship Council (PDF)

Northwest Product Stewardship Council Policymakers' Bulletin
Volume 1, Issue 1 "Governments Saddled with Electronic Scrap" (PDF)

Proposed CRT Rule (Power Point Presentation)
Presented by Marilyn Goode of the U.S. EPA., North American Hazardous Material Managers Association Conference in Portland, Oregon, September 4-8, 2001.

Extended Producer Responsibility: A Materials Policy for the 21st Century (2000)
http://www.informinc.org/
Authors: Bette Fishbein, John Ehrenfeld & John Young; Published by INFORM.

The Green Chemistry Institute
http://www.chemistry.org/greenchemistryinstitute
Working today to prevent pollution tomorrow through chemistry research and education.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/epr/epr.html
EPR and Product Stewardship Resources.

The Natural Step
http://www.naturalstep.org
A framework for sustainability.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/env/efficiency/eprworkprogr.htm
International forum of 29 developed countries that analyzes and shares information on policies in a variety of economic and social spheres. The OECD has a library of publications related to EPR including case studies on extended producer responsibility programs.

Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
http://www.pprc.org/
Information on upcoming meetings, issues pertaining to commercial and industrial pollution and waste prevention.

*The Zero Waste Alliance
http://www.zerowaste.org
A nonprofit organization of universities, government, businesses and other organizations working to investigate the use of Zero Waste as a strategy to obtain cost savings, competitive advantages and reduced environmental impacts. The ZWA approach combines the concepts and tools of industrial ecology and green chemistry.