TES earns certification in Seattle

Singapore-based IT asset disposal (ITAD) company TES says its Seattle facility has become among the first in the world to earn the R2v3 certification, the most recent iteration of the Responsible Recycling Standard (R2).

“The new R2v3 certification sets the highest standards, and adherence to those standards validates TES as a trusted and responsible ITAD partner,” states the company

Maintained by the Washington-based Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), the standard is a set of voluntary operational practices based on independent audits. The Seattle facility of TES has become one of the first facilities in the world to secure the recent third edition of the certification, according to TES.

TES says R2v3 “places a stronger emphasis on data protection, which includes meeting the demands of prevailing laws on environmental health and safety and information security, many of which are interconnected.” (More information on how TES sees R2V3 fitting into its future can be found on this web page.)

“The regulatory environment in the last five years has probably had more movement than the previous 15 years before that, in terms of global regulations, the Basel Convention, regional regulations, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), local in-country regulation; it’s all interconnected,” says Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer of TES.