Many companies store their retired technology assets rather than
face the complex tasks of environmentally safe disposal
-The Gartner Group
Are you one of
the companies that avoid computer recycling because you're just
not sure what to do with all that equipment? Maybe your company
uses one of the traditional methods like computer liquidation to
recapture some of the value of the asset. Possibly your company
goes the computer donation route to retire assets. Whatever avenue
you use to disposition surplus computer equipment you could be exposing
your company and yourself to an EPA lawsuit? The problem is that
the original owner is classified by Environmental law as Generator
of the Waste no matter how the equipment is dispositioned. If that
equipment ends up in a place where it shouldn't be i.e. dumpster,
landfill, lake or river, you and your company can be named in an
Environmental lawsuit.
Environmental
laws like RCRA, SARA, and CERCLA have been developed to hold companies
and individuals accountable for proper disposition of their e-waste.
Under CERCLA and SARA, the EPA seeks to identify the responsible
parties at contaminated Superfund Sites for cleanup costs and compensation.
Under RCRA , individuals can identify a corporation as a polluter
obligating the Federal Government to investigate.
COMX adds a
risk management model to the asset disposition process with a ZERO
LANDFILL POLICY.
