ELECTRONICS RECYCLING Revised 2006

CONTENTS INDUSTRY OVERVIEW –General Perspectives –Highlights from the IAER Industry Report Industry Survey Industry Research CHALLENGES OBSERVATIONS

KEY DRIVERS –Increasing volumes Expanding pervasiveness of electronics Shorter lifespan of electronics technologies Large inventory of obsolete electronics –Concerns Landfill Hazardous materials Export –Challenges Logistics Costs

ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT - TYPES Commercial –computers, office, financial Industrial –Telecom, Manufacturing, Medical Automotive Defense & Aerospace Consumer –PCs, video, audio, wireless, personal, games

ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT - CONTENT REUSABLE: –Units (e.g., PCs, Printers, Monitors) –Components (e.g., Drives, Memory, Processors) RECYCLABLE MATERIALS –Metals (precious, base) –Glass (CRT) –Plastics

INDUSTRY SEGMENTS Asset Management –inventory, disposition planning, resale Broker –auction, resale, export Re-Use: for resale at product level –Resale/As-Is –Repair/Refurbish /Upgrade/enhance De-Manufacturing –disassembly & separation of parts and materials Recovery of Parts & Subassemblies –Test/Classify/Re-use/Sale Materials Recovery & Recycling (plastics, metals, glass) –separate, prepare for recycling Materials Processing/Refining (glass, metal, plastics) –shred, grind, pelletize, refine

SOURCES/GENERATORS Field Returns Surplus Trade-Ins Obsolete/EOL OEMs USERS LEASCOs ELECTRONICS RECYCLING INDUSTRY SEGMENTS/OPERATIONS Asset Management Broker Re-Use De-Manufacturing Parts Recovery Materials Recovery Materials Processing TRIAGE As-Is Repair Refurbish RESALE Disassembly Recover Parts Separate Materials RESALE Shred, Grind, Separate Refine, Smelt, Melt, Pelletize Primary Materials Processors ELECTRONICS RECYCLING INDUSTRY PROCESS MODEL Scrap Equipment Metals, Glass, Plastics Materials

ELECTRONICS RECYCLERS in the USA (data from IAER database) Number of Recyclers Not including OEMs & NFPs

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HIGHLIGHTS from IAER SURVEY (Conducted in 2005) Electronics recycling operations in the USA: over 500 Employees: ~ 19,000 Annual Revenue: ~ $US1.5 billion Annual Volumes processed: –~2.8 billion pounds (1.4M tons) –including ~65 million units of computer equipment –electronics recycling process yielded ~ 1.3 billion pounds of recyclable materials

WASTE STREAM DATA Consumer Electronics in Municipal Solid Waste - EPA Millions of Tons - Generated

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS U.S. Sales Trends (Consumer Electronics Association) Total 2005 sales to increase 11% to $126 Billion DTV sales increased 78% in 2004 to 7.3M units Sales of portable MP3 players expected to exceed 10 M units in sales of digital cameras expected to be more than 20 M units Cell phone sales expected to reach 90 M units in 2005 and Global shipments of flat-screen monitors exceeded CRTs in 2004

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Per Household (CEA) Average # of CE Products Per Household (CEA)

HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONIC WASTE Estimated Replacements over 20 Years Number of Units Consumers Union

CELL PHONE TRENDS U.S. Subscribers - millions CTIA Industry Survey

FLORIDA BRANDS STUDY Product Types Collected TVs CRT Monitors Computers Printers Others % by weight

FLORIDA BRANDS STUDY Product Types by Vintage Age in Years Avg. Oldest

EPA PLUG-IN PILOT PROGRAMS Good-Guys Plastics Glass Materials Recycled

CHALLENGES facing YOUR electronics recycling operations 1.Cost of operations 2.Sources of equipment 3.Markets for outputs 4.Capacity 5.Prices for materials & parts 6.Other

CHALLENGES facing the electronics recycling INDUSTRY 1.Legislation/regulations 2.Logistics/transportation 3.Consumer/residential electronics 4.Product take-back programs 5.Plastics recycling 6.Recycling technology 7.Other

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES Most Respondents Felt That: Regulations have helped the industry R&D is important to electronics recycling There needs to be more communications It is important to achieve some type of certification

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