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WR3A = Fair Trade Recycling

World Reuse, Repair & Recycling

Association = WR3A

Mission: Make recycling more affordable by spending lessmoney smashing good stuff and earning more money

fixing bad stuff.

Means: Fair Trade Recycling, to ensure a properly vetted,audited, transparent, legal and efficient export market,and USA contracts which reward that market.

Members: Generators (universities, state government,businesses, municipalities, non-profits), Recyclers(Pledgers and New Leafers), and Overseas reuse endmarkets (BSFs, repair shops, and UNGAID/schools).


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Fair Trade Recycling

Ethical E-Scrap Export Agreements

Enforceable Civil Law Contracts Qualifying Export Markets

Qualifying USA Exporters

QA/QC =

Quality Assurance, Quality Control


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Case Study: Video Display Units

Spike in working CRTs from fall in LCD price

Mature CRT repair and refurbishing Price point important to 3b3k

3b3k = about 3 billion people earning about 3kper year.

3b3k increasing internet access 10X USA rate Video display is over 50% of price of unit in

developing countries.


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3b3k about 3 billion people make about $3 thousand per year

World Population is 6.8b Average income is $7k per year

20% richest of countries earn at least 7k,

so average of 80% is $3500 20% richest earn 35K/year average


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2008 CES Grant

Selected 10 countries including USA

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt,Indonesia,Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal,Peru, Senegal (range from $1K $10k

per capita, average around 3k) Film of reuse and repair operations


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Fully Functional for Retail or immediate use Working, warrantee, legal for export

2 hour burn in test

Functional for Refurbishment, Repair Binding Purchase Order

Reconciliation and 3 years record keeping

Contract is legal in both countries

Enforceable under civil law

Recyclable Commodity Clean, uniform, graded (ISRI-RIOS)

No Disposal (never to non-OECD) or TAR

4 Export Categories


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WR3A Shipments

1st Half 2008

2nd Half 2008 1st Half 2009

2nd Half 2009 YTD


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Ethical E-Scrap Export Agreements

Meet R2 Standards or E-Steward?

Meet EPA CRT Export Rule Set a basis for QA/QC

Recordkeeping and improvement


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Category 1:

Tested Working vs. KeyFunctionality

Big debate at R2

Examples:M

ulti-function copier without aworking fax, LCD without a power adapter, CRTwith non-working 110v power supply

For WR3A, TW is the UN schools market.Warm fuzzies but less competent

Several national E-Stewards will not allow useven to test equipment for them, and destroyrather than test.


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Functional for Refurbishment

BSF = Big Secret

Factory Original Equipment

Assembly andWarrantee Repairshops

1000+ employees 100,000 units per

month and up White Box, SKD

Export for Refurbishment and Repair is largest category of intact CRTs


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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 RIOSstandards into state contracts which are enforceable by state AG


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Functional for Refurbishment

Pre-Qualification of USA supplier

CRT Glass Test

PC Boards Test Employees per Ton

Sea Containers per Ton

Audits of Overseas Refurbishers (to R2 Standards)

Finished Product Samples (acceptable material)

Legal import permit Management of de Minimus, incidental breakage

Advantages of Frequent 80-20 Rule Audit vs. one-time snapshot audit


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Functional for RefurbishmentBecause the Refurbishers are bound by the WR3A Purchase Order

to track, and either properly recycle or ship back incidentalbreakage we are creating recyclers in Malaysia,Mexico, Egyptand Peru. Covered on NPR, PBS, and trade periodicals, we gotan $85k grant in October 2009 to operate a Cash for Clunkersprogram in Mexico, taking one junk CRT out for every one resold.


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Units shipped by WR3A

3

3

Q Q 3Q Q Q Q 3Q

e ies


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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


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QA / QC

TPISEOTG is difficultto understand

Brokered loads

Misdirectedcontainers

Delay in response tomarket changes

Misunderstandings


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How might a prohibition on e-

scrap exports make overseasdumping even worse?

World Reuse, Repair & Recycling Assoc. 2006


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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 wehave.


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Triangle 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



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WR3A Fair Trade Model 07

WR3A established a major purchase

order in 07 for 80,000 used CRTs permonth to manufacturing plants (of 70k perday capacity)

The CRTs are sold for $10 CIF The OEM produces a fallout report on

each shipment



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WR3A Fair Trade Model

Cut out middleman where bad tubes are

discarded as TAR Eventually, the OEM plans to establish end-of-

life recycling at the SKD plants

Revenues from good CRTs lowered the

average cost of recycling to 10 cents per pound(vs. 28 cents in CA)



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4 Confessions Viagra in Egypt

Mystery 21s

E-Steward reversals

Oversupply and market disruption under PO

R4 Education

Imperfect. But none of these would have been avoidedby a Tested Working standard. What we do have istransparency and QA/QC, the basis of ISO and OSHA.


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The World Reuse, Repair & RecyclingAssociation (WR3A)

Middlebury, Vermont USA

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