SRS Seeks e-Stewards Certification Across North American Facilities

Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) Americas, with headquarters in Chicago, has announced plans to obtain e-Stewards certification at all 14 of its electronics processing facilities in North America. The company says its North American facilities already have ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and R2 (Responsible Recycling Practices) certifications as well as EPSC RVQP (Electronics Product Stewardship Canada Recycling Vendor Qualification Committee) certifications in Canada. SRS says that with the addition of the e-Stewards certification, it will maintain the highest level of certification in the electronics recycling industry.

To accomplish this, SRS has been working closely with Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN), the creators of the e-Stewards Standard and certification program, on a number of issues, including global waste trade policy and the improvement of the e-Stewards standard and its management. Sims says that it believes that e-Stewards provides the clearest, most unambiguous and robust approach to domestic electronic scrap processing and applauds the recent announcement by BAN to find a third-party host organization to administer for the e-Stewards program.