Wr3 a trimmed_ca_2011

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).


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


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.


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.


“ 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 Shipments

• 1st Half 2008 • 2nd Half 2008• 1st Half 2009• 2nd Half 2009 YTD• 2010


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


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


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.


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


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


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


More Info, or Send Ideas

www.wr3a.org

The World Reuse, Repair & Recycling Association (WR3A)

Middlebury, Vermont USA

http://www.wr3a.org/

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