Recycling for Disadvantaged Children E-waste Children of the Philippines

1. KAIBIGANE-WasteFilipino American Student AssociationPortland State University

2. Recycling for Disadvantaged Children Created at PSU in 2009, and incorporated in Oregon in 2010.Applying for its 501 (c ) (3)Federal Tax Exempt StatusIn 2011.

3. Sales in Electronics -How Much Electronics Are Being Sold

4. Computer Sales 305 million computers sold in 2009 worldwide. The US bought 96 million of them. Computer sales projections: 366 million worldwide in 2010, up 20% over 2009. 70% of those will be mobile PCs. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, US consumers will purchase $165 billion in consumer electronics in 2010, a slight increase over 2009 sales.

5. According to Gartner, Inc, manufacturers shipped 305.8 million computers in 2009. 55% of these were mobile PCs (notebooks, netbooks, tablets). Ninety six million of these were to the U.S. Worldwide PC shipments are projected to total 366.1 million units in 2010, a 19.7 percent increase from 305.8 million units shipped in 2009, according to the latest preliminary forecast by Gartner, Inc. Worldwide PC spending is forecast to reach $245 billion in 2010, up 12.2 percent from 2009

6. How Much E‐waste is Being Discarded?

7. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 29.9 million desktops and 12 million laptops were discarded in 2007. That’s over 112,000 computers discarded per day! The EPA report estimates that 31.9 computer monitors were discarded in 2007 – both flat panel and CRTs. In a 2006 report, the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, projects that with the current growth and obsolescence rates of the various categories of consumer electronics, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 billion units will be scrapped during the rest of this decade, or an average of about 400 million units a year.

8. In 2008, we generated 3.16 million tons of e‐waste in the U.S. Of this disposed in 2008 in USA amount, only 430,000 tons or 13.6 % was recycled, according to the EPA. The rest was trashed – in landfills or incinerators. (The total generated increased from 3.01 million tons of e‐waste generated in 2007, but the recovery rate stayed at 13.6%. 3 Some 20 to 50 million metric tonnes of e‐waste are generated worldwide every year, comprising more than 5% of all municipal solid waste. When the millions of computers purchased around the world every year (183 million in 2004) become obsolete they leave behind lead, cadmium, mercury and other hazardous wastes. In the US alone, some 14 to 20 million PCs are thrown out every year.

9. Only 13.6% of the consumer electronic products generated into the municipal waste stream (meaning, that people tossed out) were “recovered” for recycling in 2008. This compares to the overall recovery rate of all categories of municipal waste was 33.2% in 2008. A total of 430,000 tons of electronics were recovered in 2008.7

10. How Much Electronic Waste Gets Stored or Stockpiled?

11. 68 percent of consumers stockpile used or unwanted computer equipment in their homes. The EPA estimates the following quantities of electronics were in storage by 2007 (not including cell phones) Televisions: 99.1 million Desktop computers: 65.7 million Desktop monitors: 42.4 million Notebook computers: 2.1 million Hard copy peripherals: 25.2 million (printers, copiers, faxes, multi’s) TOTAL: 234.6 million units in storage9

12. U.S. Colleges and Universities

13. College campuses are perhaps the most telling evidence of our culture’s love affair with sophisticated technology. It is commonplace to see students tote laptops from the dormitory to the classroom and the library. Professors are facilitating the trend by shifting class lessons and assignments to the web and using e-mail, blogs, and online forums to communicate with them outside of the classroom.

14. With the proliferation of electronics also comes the challenge of their proper disposal. Many universities are grappling with ways to efficiently and cost-effectively handle the issue of electronic waste, or e-waste, on campus. It’s normal for people to discard of products due to normal wear and tear, but technological advancements have accelerated e-waste growth as students, faculty, and administrators frequently upgrade to better gadgets.

15. Recycled?

16. In 2008 a Greenpeace study, "Not in My Backyard", found that in Europe only 25 percent of the e-waste was recycled safely. In the U.S. it is only 20 percent and in developing countries it is less than one percent.

17. With the need for American firms to dispose of 2.6 million tons of e-waste each year, corporations perceive exportation as a way to cut costs and increase profits. Although most European countries have ratified the ban against e-waste exports through the Basel Convention, the United States has only signed the Convention and not yet ratified it. This essentially means that e-waste exports are only illegal under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and as long as an American firm exports waste with the intention to recycle it, it can do so legally.

18. Recycling for Disadvantaged Children’s E-waste plan

19. One of the biggest problems with e-waste is storage. Once these computers, laptops, monitors, cell phones, and other technological components that make up e-waste are stored for long periods of time they become damaged by water and other contaminates. This destroys any chance of recycling these units for parts or reassembly.

20. We plan to collect computes and electronic equipment from colleges and universities (PSU) before they can be destroyed and deliver them to trade and technical schools for reuse. Many computers and their components at colleges and universities in the U.S. are not discarded because they are broken; they are discarded because the schools want to upgrade their systems.

21. Many of these discarded computers are of a higher quality that many of the government agencies and schools have to use in developing countries, such as the Philippines. The schools in developing countries can use these computers, other electronics, and their parts to teach and repair broken units, reusing every part until it is absolutely not reusable. Only then will it be recycled with all proceeds (if any) used to maintain a system of delivery, storage, and security.

22. Please Recycle For Disadvantage Children

23. KAIBIGAN Filipino American Student AssociationE-Mail: kaibigan@pdx.eduPhone: 503.725.2964Office: Smith Memorial Student Union, Rm M103Mailing Address: Student Activities and Leadership ProgramsPortland State UniversityP.O. Box 751 - SALPPortland, OR 97207-0751

24. Recycling for Disadvantaged Children 175 North 13th Saint Helens OR, 97051 (503)397-5844 Website: http://recyclingfordisadvantagedchildren.giving.officelive.com/ Email: recyclingfordisadvantagedchildren@officeliveusers.com

25. ReferencesSmith, C. (2009).Reducing campus e-waste through product stewardship: Recycling programsadopting a management strategy that maximizes institutional participation. Retrieved on March 13, 2011 from http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1464 TakeBack Coalition (2010).Facts and figures on e‐waste and recycling. electronics. Retrieved on March 13, 2011 fromhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computertakeback.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FFacts_and_Figures&ei=tBB_TeS-FJG-0QHgm_nwCA&usg=AFQjCNH6dRJodTEwiNjIbPttRGEyYJWsUw