US Government Forced Companies to Reuse the E-waste

US federal Government is one of the largest contributors to producing the e-waste more than any consumers or companies. The Govt. has 3 million of employees all around the country departments excluded the military and court employee, producing the 2.4 million ton of the electronic waste, which is dumped into the landfills. It disposing all the printers, monitors, CPU’s, Cell phones, Fridges, and several equipments and also the cleaning chemicals into the soil and water supply, but our earth is capable to absorb all the impurity. The govt. is serious to reduce the number and managing the recycling the proper disposal of the e-goods. The General Service Administrative department, which is responsible for buying all the equipments that employees need, has proposed a new law, which will be seeing govt. proper operation in handling the e-waste. If the rule is pass and became the law, so burning or throwing into the landfills are not acceptable.

triplepundit says“Agencies will have to make every effort to offer unwanted electronic equipment to other federal government offices. Failing that, such products would then be donated to local and state governments, schools, or non-profits. And in a move that will hardly make a dent in the federal government’s debt but would still be a welcome gesture by those irritated by government inefficiency and waste, government agencies would also be allowed to sell equipment.”

The electronics, which is not in good condition and cannot be reuse, will be sent to recyclers. The GSA will only allow the dumped electronics sent to companies, certified by R2 and e-stewards. These two corporations are the only authorized companies to recyclethe goods.  In order to make some transparency the GSA Said they will develop some policies to make companies to submit the report of their work so far. All the data will be available at data.gov.