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WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A
Mission: Reform recycling export market through Fair Trade agreements, accountability, responsibility.
Means: Contracts, R2 certification, ISO certification, reconciliation reports, site visits, internships.
Members: Generators (universities, government, businesses, non-profits), Recyclers (“Stewards” and “New Leafers”), and Overseas end markets (BSFs, repair shops, and UNGAID/schools).
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Fair Trade Recycling
• Ethical E-Scrap Export Agreements• Enforceable Civil Law Contracts• Qualifying Export Markets• Qualifying USA Exporters• Reconciliation Reports (better than “tested
working” or brokers).
QA/QC = Quality Assurance, Quality Control
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Higher Education
• MIT • Memorial University• Arizona State U• University Vermont• Dartmouth College• Middlebury College
• University of Amsterdam• University of Guadalajara • University of
Massachusetts• 5 Colleges MA
Presentations at Boston College, Brown, Stanford, Cornell, Univ Texas, etc.
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Case Study: Video Display Units
• Spike in “working CRTs” from fall in LCD price• Mature CRT repair and refurbishing• Price point important to emerging market• 3b3k = about 3 billion people earning about 3k
per year.
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
“ 3b3k ”“about 3 billion people make about $3 thousand per year”
• Egypt, Senegal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Mexico, Ghana, etc.
• 3b3k internet access 10X USA rate• Video display is over 50% of price of unit
in developing countries.• 30,000 of these sent from higher
education in Northeast.
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
WR3A Shipments
• 1st Half 2008 • 2nd Half 2008• 1st Half 2009• 2nd Half 2009 YTD• 2010
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Functional for Refurbishment
• “BSF” = Big Secret Factory
• Original Equipment Assembly and Warrantee Repair shops
• 1000+ employees• 100,000 units per
month and up• “White Box”, “SKD”
Export for Refurbishment and Repair is largest category of intact CRTs
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Category 2: Functional for Refurbishment
• WR3A Purchase Orders – 60,000 CRTs per month• 15 Grades of CRT• Pre-Qualification of USA supplier• Audits of Overseas Refurbishers (to R2 Standards)• Must track “incidental breakage” and properly recycle or re-export
it• Incentives and rewards for:
– National EPA inspections (4x per year in Malaysia)– ISO14001– EH&S Programs
Goal: All states and universities incorporate “Fair Trade” and RIOS standards into state contracts – which are enforceable by state AG
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Functional for RefurbishmentBecause the Refurbishers are bound by the WR3A Purchase Order
to track, and either properly recycle or ship back “incidental breakage” we are creating recyclers in Malaysia, Mexico, Egypt and Peru. Covered on NPR, PBS, and trade periodicals, we got an $85k grant in October 2009 to operate a “Cash for Clunkers” program in Mexico, taking one junk CRT out for every one resold.
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Units shipped by WR3A
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5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
50,000
1Q 08 2Q 08 3Q 08 4Q 08 1Q 09 2Q 09 3Q 09
Series1
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
Total 105,052 units RM335,027.50 income
units $ containers Price per unit Fallout
1Q 08 9,255 47,039 9 RM 5.08 5%
2Q 08 10,791 97,044 13 RM 8.99 8%
3Q 08 10,232 49,827 9 RM 4.87 7%
4Q 08 13,693 120,813 20 RM 8.82 11%
1Q 09 10,163 31,706 18 RM 3.12 4%
2Q 09 17,123 44,455 9 RM 2.60 8%
3Q 09 44,131 21,216 63 RM 0.48 n/a
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
World Supply and Demand
• Approximately 3 billion people earn approximately $3,000 per year.
• Rate of internet access is 10X USA• BAN “hopes” they will “leapfrog” the USA and
get better, newer computers than we have.
WR3A = Fair Trade RecyclingTriangle Trade
Factory remanufacturing 70-80,000 SKD / month
USA Suppliers
Brokers Strippers 30% TAR
100,000
100,000
5% failure
WR3A
WR3A Standard = 30% domestic recycling
70,000
70,000
World Reuse, Repair & Recycling Assoc. 2006
WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling
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www.wr3a.org
The World Reuse, Repair & Recycling Association (WR3A)
Middlebury, Vermont USA