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Responsible Recycling Certification is a big topic here at ISRI. This is the first of three posts about three exports which are up in the air: PC power supplies, optic drives, and hard drives.
The cost of certification is somewhere between $8K and $18K, assuming you manage TVs etc.. It is not the cost of the certification, however, as much as the added expense or sacrificed profit from activities you may have to add or curtail.
There's a lot of buzz over a small number of items - DVD Roms, CD Rom drives, floppy disk drives, and power supplies. These are parts that in the past were harvested and accepted as exportable under the Pledge of True Stewardship (at least, according to several Pledge signers I spoke to, who knows what the Imam said at any point in time). They were acceptable by many countries interpretation of Basel Convention, but not by all. Today the question is: Are power supplies "focus materials"?
