Redemtech Pledges True E-Waste Stewardship

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Basel Action Network approve company's pledge to uphold e-waste disposal standards, endorse reuse methodology.

 

Redemtech announced that Computer TakeBack Campaign, a coalition of environmental groups, has approved the company's Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship.

 

The Pledge, sponsored by Computer TakeBack members Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Basel Action Network, calls for recyclers to uphold the world's most rigorous environmental and social criteria for the recycling of electronic wastes.

 

In signing the Pledge, Redemtech vows to continue to prevent hazardous e-waste from being sent to municipal incinerators or landfills, exported to developing countries or dismantled by prison labor.

 

The company also reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that the entire recycling chain, including downstream intermediaries and recovery operations, is meeting all applicable environmental and health regulations.

 

In approving Redemtech's application, SVTC and BAN acknowledge that the company's current recycling practices meet their strict standards.