Metech Recycling, an electronics recycling company based in Worcester, Mass., has achieved e-Stewards certification.
The Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based non-profit organization, created the certification program, which it released in 2010.
Metech Recycling is the seventh recycling company in the U.S. to achieve e-Stewards certification following independent audits of its facilities.
“We have been looking forward to e-Stewards certification ever since we agreed to be an e-Stewards Founder when the program was first formed,” says Chris Ryan, president of Metech Recycling. “I am proud of our Compliance, Quality & Sustainability team that was able to demonstrate to the auditors Metech Recycling’s commitment and implementation of the e-Stewards standard, which is really the gold standard in our industry.”
The e-Stewards standard was designed to be consistent with international trade rules, such as the Basel Convention, and includes ISO 14001 certification as well. (The company is also certified to the ISO 9001:2008 quality management system standard.) The e-Stewards standard prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries as well as the disposal of toxic waste in solid waste landfills and incinerators. It also prohibits the use of prison labor in electronics recycling and includes practices designed to protect worker health and safety.
“We are delighted to see Metech Recycling add its name to the growing list of electronics recycling companies recognized as industry leaders,” says BAN Executive Director Jim Puckett. “They are among those recyclers that are willing to go the extra mile to be truly socially and environmentally responsible with their customer’s electronic waste.”
Metech Recycling provides complete materials processing and certified documentation of data device destruction. The company operates recycling facilities in California, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Metech Recycling is owned by Centillion Environmental and Recycling Ltd., based in Singapore, a fully integrated provider of recycling and precious metals processing services for electronic scrap.
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