A non-profit/municipality/corporate partnership: innovative model for collecting end-of-life electronics

A. Whitley, M. Watson, B. Hilton, M. Martínez, C. Banks, R. Hays
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Residential collection rates and public awareness of properly disposing/recycling of computer equipment are still low. Although many computer collection schemes exist, e.g. OEM recycling offers, donation, resale, municipality events, etc., participation rates suggests residential users are continuing to store outdated computer equipment and/or disposing of equipment improperly. In order to continue to build awareness for properly recycling end-of-life computer equipment and investigate innovative partnerships, several interested stakeholders agreed in early 2004 to form a partnership that would leverage the distinctive experiences and skills of each partner. The goals of the partnership, and subsequent pilot program, were to: (1) improve the collection volumes of residential computer equipment in the target area; (2) provide additional methods for residential consumers to reuse/recycle their electronics; (3) conduct surveys that would provide behavior/perception data and lessons learned for other stakeholders and interested communities; (4) continue to educate the public through a highly-publicized program; and (5) develop a best practices guidebook for other communities to use when launching similar programs. This unique partnership consisted of a non-profit organization, a municipality, and a private/corporate entity - in this case, Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, the City of Austin, and Dell Inc. A one-year pilot program, titled the Austin Computer Recycling Project, was launched in October 2004 in order to meet the goals of the project and gather and evaluate data to determine program effectiveness, track volumes of equipment collected, record demographics and program participants, understand consumer behavior and barriers to recycling, and test the underlying fundamentals of such partnerships. A second paper is published to evaluate the results of the pilot program.
非营利/市政/企业合作伙伴关系:收集报废电子产品的创新模式
住宅收集率和市民妥善弃置/循环再造电脑设备的意识仍然较低。虽然存在许多计算机收集计划,例如OEM回收提供、捐赠、转售、市政活动等,但参与率表明住宅用户继续存储过时的计算机设备和/或不适当地处理设备。为了继续提高人们对妥善回收报废电脑设备的认识,并研究创新的伙伴关系,几个有兴趣的利益攸关方在2004年初同意建立一个伙伴关系,利用每个伙伴的独特经验和技能。合作伙伴关系和随后的试点计划的目标是:(1)提高目标地区住宅计算机设备的收集量;(2)为住宅消费者提供额外的方法,以重复使用/循环再造他们的电子产品;(3)开展调查,为其他利益相关者和感兴趣的社区提供行为/感知数据和经验教训;(4)通过高度宣传的项目继续教育公众;(5)制定一份最佳实践指南,供其他社区在启动类似项目时使用。这种独特的伙伴关系包括一个非营利组织、一个市政当局和一个私人/公司实体——在本例中是德克萨斯州中部的Goodwill Industries、奥斯汀市和戴尔公司。2004年10月,一项名为“奥斯汀电脑回收项目”的为期一年的试点项目启动,目的是实现该项目的目标,收集和评估数据,以确定项目的有效性,跟踪收集的设备数量,记录人口统计数据和项目参与者,了解消费者行为和回收的障碍,并测试这种伙伴关系的潜在基础。第二篇论文发表,以评估试点项目的结果。
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