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Waste Systems and Village Green Global Team Up to Maximize Benefits of E-Waste Management
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March 12, 2013

Waste Systems and Village Green Global Team Up to Maximize Benefits of E-Waste Management

By Madhubanti Rudra
TMCnet Contributor

E-waste or e-scrap – no matter in what name you choose to describe it all, discarded electronic gadgets and equipment are creating a worldwide waste stream, and it’s massive.

Electronics are a major contributor to the expansion of greenhouse gas emissions, as the raw materials used to produce them are energy intensive and transported globally. In many countries, e-wastes end up in landfills.

According to some estimates, the U.S. alone recorded nearly a 300-percent increase in embodied emissions in electronic goods between 1997 and 2004. This was primarily driven by increased consumption of computers and peripherals, audio/video equipment, wireless communications equipment, and various components.


Under this backdrop, the proper handling of e-waste becomes a necessity for electronics companies. The adoption of proper e-waste recycling strategy not only helps businesses handle e-waste in a proper way, but also fight the negative effects of these overused landfills.

E-Waste Systems, Inc. is a key player in the emerging waste electrical and electronics equipment (WEEE) industry. EWSI offers consultation, state-of-the-art engineering, and a global e-waste solution to organizations facing regulatory or other mandates for handling e-waste.

EWSI operates through its large geographical network of affiliates and helps apply best practices in professional E-waste management. Recently, the company teamed up with Village Green Global (VGG) to roll out an exclusive software solution, set to be offered under the eWaste Carbon Credit (eWasteCC) brand name, integrating with VGG's SMARTWeb, a proprietary SaaS (News - Alert) accounting tool.

The new eWasteCC can be leveraged to identify and quantify the energy usage of electronics assets to reduce energy consumption, achieve compliant recycling, and facilitate carbon trading.

VGG is a provider of cloud-based energy and carbon accounting software, SMARTWeb. The SaaS service is offered to large greenhouse gas emitters for corporate social responsibility reporting and compliance management. VGG's software helps measure the amount of emission or energy saved by a greenhouse gas emitted. The system's extensive auditing and reporting capabilities give users the information needed to identify and justify energy management investments, demonstrate regulatory compliance, benchmark environmental performance, and verify energy or emission credits for carbon trading.

The significance of EWSI and VGG collaboration is as follows: it leads to the creation of a brand new asset class in carbon credits trading, by bringing the carbon credit community close to the eWaste community.

By bringing public carbon credit trading ability to the e-waste industry, this ground-breaking initiative is expected to elicit a broader awareness and the faster adoption of proper eWaste recycling services. 

“eWasteCC brings the first public carbon credit trading ability to the e-waste industry. The software development agreement between EWSI and VGG will lead to a brand new asset class in carbon credits trading,” the CEO at EWSI noted in a statement. “Adding the carbon credit community to the eWaste community enlarges the market opportunity for creating broader awareness and the faster adoption of proper eWaste recycling services while fighting the negative effects of landfills. In conjunction with VGG's SMARTWeb, our eWasteCC brand can become a market leader as we jointly expand our network of partners around the globe.”

Last year, E-Waste Systems signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire an end-of-life electronics company with operations located in the Southwest, Central and Western regions of the U.S., as part of its strategy to become a global leader in the $55-billion e-waste services industry.




Edited by Braden Becker


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