Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.23
Liaison Mark Klapatch-Mathias
Submission Date Jan. 13, 2012
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

University of Wisconsin-River Falls
OP-20: Electronic Waste Recycling Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 1.00 Ian Johnson
Research Fellow
SCISCD
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Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish all electronic waste generated by the institution and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
Yes

Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish electronic waste generated by students and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
No

A brief description of steps taken to ensure that e-waste is recycled responsibly, workers’ basic safety is protected, and environmental standards are met:

Since 1998, UWRF has had a program in place to recycle/refurbish all faculty, staff, lab, and department computer components and peripherals, televisions, and fax machines through Universal Recycling Technologies. UWRF has not widely advertised recycling of cables and cords, equipment like digital cameras and camcorders, cell phones and telephones; as a result, these items may occasionally end up in waste containers.
UWRF does not currently have a program in place to handle student-generated electronic waste.


A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for institution-generated materials:

Electronic waste is first wiped of all data, then sent to Universal Recycling Technologies, who perform a second round of data removal. URT refurbishes, re-purposes, or recycles the waste free of charge to the University.


A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for student-generated materials :
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The website URL where information about the e-waste recycling program is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Information for this credit was gathered from the Division of Technology Services webpage.


Information for this credit was gathered from the Division of Technology Services webpage.

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