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Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid Batteries/E-Waste Tijuana, Mexico / December 4-6, 2007

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Page 1: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings

Verena RadulovicU.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid Batteries/E-Waste

Tijuana, Mexico / December 4-6, 2007

Page 2: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Scope of Products Studied

• Residential and commercial:– Personal computers (desktops, portables,

monitors, keyboards, mice)– Televisions– Hard copy computer peripherals (printers,

scanners, multifunction devices, faxes) – Cell phones

Page 3: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Draft Results: Where are all the Electronics?

Of all products sold between 1980-2004:

• Almost 50% are still in use either by the first or subsequent owners

• About 42% have already been managed via recycling or disposal.

• The remaining 9% are still in storage– About ½ of products in storage are TVs– About ¼ of products in storage are PCs.

Page 4: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Recycling vs. Disposal

• Of electronics available for EOL management in 2005, about 15% - 20% recycled and 80% - 85% disposed (largely to landfills).

• This recycled/disposed split constant between 1999 and 2005– the amount of material recycled has increased

substantially, but so too has the amount of electronics generated for EOL management

Page 5: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Amount Recycled

Year Units (million) Tons (thousand)

2003 40.8 - 47.2 290.0 - 347.82004 48.3 - 52.0 320.0 - 359.92005 53.9 - 57.0 345.0 - 379.0

Estimated Devices Collected for Recycling 2003 - 2005

Page 6: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Amount of Desktops Recycled

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Amount of TVs Recycled

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Amount of Cell Phones Recycled

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Page 9: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

End Markets for CRTs

• Relied on industry experts since no publicly available information

• In 2005– Approximately 61 percent, or 107,500 tons, of CRT monitors

and TVs collected for recycling were exported for remanufacture or refurbishment.

– About 14 percent, or 24,000 tons, was CRT glass sold to markets abroad for glass-to-glass processing whereas 2 percent (4,000 tons) was sold in the U.S.,

– Lead recovery in North America accounts for about 6 percent (10,000 tons) of the material.

Page 10: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

The Overall Approach

Page 11: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Two Different Models

• Two different data sets for sales: market research and government statistics

• Both models used data from FL collection programs to derive life span; but in a slightly different way.

• Two opposite approaches to estimating amount recycled/disposed.– One estimated amount recycled by looking at recycling industry;

calculated amount disposed from amount recycled.– One estimated amount disposed by looking at waste sorts; ;

calculated amount recycled from amount

• Results Corroborated!

Page 12: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Storage and Reuse

• Approach One estimated the number of units cumulatively stored as of 2005 to be 180 million products

• Approach Two estimated the annual number of products going into storage and/or reuse. In 2005 alone, approximately 460 million units were put into storage and/or reuse.

Page 13: Electronics Waste Management in the US: Draft Findings Verena Radulovic U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Capacity Building Workshop on Spent Lead Acid

Contacts

See details and models at

http://epa.gov/ecycling.manage.htm

For more information:

Clare Lindsay; [email protected]

Christina Kager; [email protected]