CAER’s ranks boosted by Covanta Energy

United States – Another major player, Covanta Energy, has joined the newly-founded Coalition For American Electronics Recycling (CAER) – an industry trade group fighting for federal legislation to restrict exports of toxic electronic waste from the USA.

The coalition’s call for the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act is gaining increasing attention, even attracting growing bi-partisan support from the US House of Representatives, it says.

Such support is a clear sign of the ‘growing momentum’ in the recycling business for a bill that will ensure ‘fair and responsible trade in electronics commodities’, argues Steve Skurnac, President of Sims Recycling Solutions and a CAER steering committee member. Such legislation is vital, he says, because it will enhance sustainability, create jobs and also protect America’s security interests – a cause Gordon Burgoyne, Director of E-waste Business Development for ECOvanta, is more than happy to join, saying: ‘Covanta Energy is proud to support the passage of a bill that ensures the proper recycling of e-waste.’

Formed in the summer of 2011, the CAER already represents 56 US companies spread across more than 30 states, all of which are involved in multiple aspects of domestic electronics recycling.

For more information, visit: www.americanerecycling.org