R2v3 receives ANSI accreditation

SERI (Sustainable Electronics Recycling International), Hastings, Minnesota, has announced via its “R2 Update” email for September that the newly released R2v3 Standard, which updates the “Sustainable Electronics Reuse & Recycling (R2) Standard,” has been recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), making it what the organization says is the “only approved American National Standard for responsible electronics reuse and recycling.”

SERI says, “ANSI accreditation validates that the process of developing R2v3, which took more than five years and over 5,100 volunteer hours from our multistakeholder TAC (Technical Advisory Committee), meets their rigors for standards development.”

Corey Dehmey, SERI executive director, says, “SERI has always been committed to an open, balanced, consensus-based process to develop the R2 Standard. The strength of R2 is that it is the stakeholders (the R2 TAC) that create and revise the R2 Standard, and that strength is reflected in R2’s overwhelming adoption by OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), businesses, governments, refurbishers, recyclers, ITAD (information technology asset disposition) providers and warranty, returns and trade-in programs. Recognition as an Approved American National Standard verifies the credibility of the R2 Standard development process.”