Greentech Lead America: Arrow Electronics has formed partnership with Basel Action Network (BAN) to certify all of Arrow’s electronics recycling and IT asset recovery operations worldwide to the e-Stewards standard.
The partnership will help lead the program not only across North America but also into Europe and Latin America. Arrow will be the first global e-Stewards recycler taking the program to all of its facilities in multiple continents.
e-Stewards is a globally accredited, third-party audited certification program developed by BAN with industry leaders. The certification is a primary tool in that campaign and is supported by over 70 environmental organizations worldwide and already by over 50 major corporations and cities including Wells Fargo Bank, Alcoa, Boeing, Bank of America, San Francisco, LG, Samsung, and Bloomberg, known as e-Stewards Enterprises.
The e-Stewards standard assures customers that no hazardous electronic waste will be exported to developing countries or end up in municipal landfills or incinerators or be processed using prison, child or forced labor. It also stands as a global model for the protection of confidential data housed in electronic equipment.
The certification covers nine processing facilities in the United States, six in Europe and one in Brazil. Arrow has chosen to pursue e-Stewards certification as part of its global compliance program for value recovery that incorporates the best practices of today’s leading industry standards, while creating a flexible platform to focus on the challenges of tomorrow.
Arrow’s value recovery business provides specialized management of reverse material streams, IT asset recovery and remarketing services that enable technology users to uncover opportunities for greater efficiencies and value capture at the end of the IT product lifecycle.
Drawing from its industry leadership, it is anticipated that Arrow will support BAN and e-Stewards in an advisory capacity in the coming years.
BAN first exposed e-waste dumping in developing countries and has led a campaign to prevent irresponsible dumping of hazardous electronic wastes in developing countries. BAN’s research has been featured in CBS’s “60 Minutes” and “Frontline,” the New York Times and other news outlets.