Cascade Asset Management Receives E-Stewards Certification

The Basel Action Network has announced that the Madison, Wis., IT equipment refurbishing and recycling center of Cascade Asset Management, is now an e-Stewards® certified electronics recycler.

Cascade’s Wisconsin processing facility is the company’s headquarters. Cascade’s facilities in Florida, California and Indiana are scheduled for independent certification audits to the e-Stewards standard later this year.  
 
“E-Stewards certified electronics recyclers have undergone a rigorous independent accredited audit process to ensure they are not simply dumping this toxic waste on developing countries under the guise of ‘recycling,’” says Jim Puckett, executive director of BAN.

E-Stewards is an accredited, third-party audited certification program that has been endorsed by Greenpeace USA, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Electronics TakeBack Coalition and 68 other environmental organizations. It also has drawn the support of major corporations, such as Wells Fargo, Samsung, Premier and Bank of America.
 
“The e-Stewards Certification validates Cascade’s ongoing commitment to responsible processing of IT assets,” says Neil Peters-Michaud, CEO and founder of Cascade. “It’s a rigorous standard that evaluates all our operations, systems and people from top to bottom to demonstrate conformance to the highest standard for responsibility in the industry.”
 
Cascade Asset Management has provided full-service IT asset retirement solutions since 1999. The company says it has experienced continual growth since its inception, with service revenues growing 40 percent per year.
 
BAN was founded in 1997 and named after the Basel Convention, the United Nations treaty that restricts trade in hazardous wastes and was intended to stop the dumping of toxic waste in developing nations.