Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.55
Liaison Aaron Klemm
Submission Date Sept. 15, 2011
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STARS v1.0

San Jose State University
OP-20: Electronic Waste Recycling Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Loren Lewis
Project Coordinator
Office of the President
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Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish all electronic waste generated by the institution and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
Yes

Does the institution have a program in place to recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish all electronic waste generated by students and take measures to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled responsibly?:
Yes

A brief description of steps taken to ensure that e-waste is recycled responsibly, workers’ basic safety is protected, and environmental standards are met:

SJSU's vendor, Zak Enterprises, has been a leading provider of e-waste recycling services to the greater San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. They are also very concerned about, and their business depends upon, the proper, regulatory-compliant disposal of electronic equipment. All e-waste items are dismantled/torn down at Zak Enterprise’s Santa Clara facility. All of the dismantled e-waste material is disposed of through reputable, long standing vendors and their customers are assured that none of it ends up in a toxic landfill of some third world country. (see www.zakenterprises.com for complete information about their processes including worker information)


A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for institution-generated materials:

All E-waste generated by SJSU Faculty and Staff is picked up by Zak Enterprises, an e waste dismantling company, whose first priority is reuse of an item, followed by refurbishment and reuse if possible, and ultimately disposition through a pledged e-stewards recycler only if these initial two options are not available.


A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program for student-generated materials :

Students are able to bring their e-waste to the Associated Students Computer Center located in the Student Union. All e-waste collected at this location is then picked up by Zak Enterprises and processed as above.


The website URL where information about the e-waste recycling program is available:
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