Find non-governmental organization and industry resources

A number of organizations provide information and support for organizations in the electronics industry. You may find the organizations listed below helpful for your situation.

ITRAN Electronics Recycling Services will assist you identify the VALUE of your defective, obsolete & excess inventory.  This includes servers, desktops, notebooks, cabling, displays, telecom and more.  They will evaluate the product for precious metal content and return the maximum value for these products.  Their higher yield rates for precious metals are factored into their quote.  In addition, they offer other electronic recycling services including: collection, de-manufacturing, dismantling, sorting, grading, etc., as well as logistics setup for Trade In Programs and De-Installs for Onsite programs.

NASBA is partnering with the National Cristina Foundation, which directs donated IT equipment and to schools, non-profits and public agencies across the United States and Canada.  Together, NASBA and NCF are “Linking Life to Its Promise”.

The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative brings together industry, consumers and conservation organizations to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer’s power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state.

The EPEAT site for small business provides a variety of resources to register products, promote EPEAT registered products, or use EPEAT to make environmentally preferable purchasing decisions.

Waste Disposal Systems uses intelligent strategies to manage solid waste and recycling programs, to reduce cost and to improve efficiencies.

Schaffer Environmental – Green IT Consultant: Work with the leader in Green and EPEAT consulting to help you better understand and finish your products and strategies to be fully green. Find out more, including how to use your Intel FlexPoints to pay for the services, at www.knowsgreen.com.

GreenTech Pastures – Source for current thoughts and directions of Green IT from a journalistic point of view.

ECS Refining is a recycling and end of life services company for electronics, industrial equipment and hazardous wastes.  By applying a mixture of physics, science, entrepreneurialism and insight honed from its years of experience ECS Refining has developed a methodology that extracts the maximum value from materials and equipment while minimizing our impact on the environment.  Employing our entire breadth of services; recovery and refining, asset management and refurbishing and resale; we have a unique way of meeting our client’s requirements.

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