It was 16 years ago when SRS representatives walked the halls of the Rosen Centre in Orlando for the very first E-Scrap Conference. With a few hundred attendees it was clear the e-waste industry was starting to see rapid growth in demand. Today this event has evolved to be one of the biggest annual conferences…
Every electronic and IT product has a lifecycle. Following a product release, the item is distributed based on demand, purchased and used to maturity, which is the point at which excitement and demand starts to decline. Decline in demand compromises market share, brand equity and profitability. Manufacturers manage this stage in the product lifecycle through…
The spate of major brand recalls in the last few years, for various reasons, remind us of the need to be prepared and ready to manage a product recall process well. When a product fails, either in a B2C or B2B environment, the potential for high costs and brand damage is high. Organisations need to…
This month we profile, Raphael Reveles, Engineering and Technical Director – Americas for Sims Recycling Solutions. What is your educational background? I did my undergrad education in Physics at the University of California, Davis and received a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. During that time I also worked as a diesel…
Sims Recycling Solutions provides a featured interview of a customer, partner or colleague within the field of IT asset disposition or recycling. These interviews provide an opportunity to learn about the different aspects of electronic equipment disposal or recycling from an economic, environmental or social perspective. This issue profiles Oladele Osibanjo, director of the Nigerian…
Patricia Whiting, senior international policy analyst at Sims Recycling Solutions and Josh Lepawsky, associate professor of geography at Memorial University in Newfoundland recently launched a Controversy Mapping project as it relates to the transboundary movement of e-waste on behalf of the Solving the E-Waste Initiative (StEP). Controversy Mapping models are typically utilized to help experts…
Sims Recycling Solutions believes it is important to support local recycling organizations in communities where we provide services. Sims Recycling Solutions co-sponsored the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s Fall Celebration and fundraising event on September 28 with Sims Municipal Recycling. The event was held at Sims Municipal Recycling’s materials recycling facility along the East River…
Sims Recycling Solutions will host the next Basel Convention Environmentally Sound Management Expert Group meeting in San Francisco, Calif. on November 10-12, 2015. Experts representing Basel Parties attending the meeting include the U.S. government (a signatory but not a Party) and various representatives from academia, non-governmental organizations and the private sector. The group will meet…
This month we place the spotlight on Christine Chute Canul, senior program director with Keep Texas Beautiful. How and when did the Keep Texas Beautiful organization start? The organization’s history dates back to 1967 when the state of Texas was preparing for the world’s fair and more than 16 million tourists were expected to visit the state.…
The Basel Convention Conference of the Parties (COP) held in Geneva in May 2015 adopted, on an interim basis, technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment. These guidelines mainly describe the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention (e-waste technical guidelines). The purpose of…