Does eWaste Alternatives export electronic materials for reuse or recycling?

No. We screen our downstream scrap materials processors to ensure that the materials will be processed in licensed North American facilities. Many legitimate processing options exist outside North America, but the difficulty in monitoring the environmental and human safety at these distant sites makes quality assurance tenuous at best - not to mention the many different international environmental standards.

To provide the best transparency and materials accountability possible for our donors, we have held to this standard. These overseas markets are also substantially more lucrative due to lower labor costs and environmental standards. This has been a challenge when competing in the open market, because recyclers with whom we compete (there aren't many that can) trade with these countries regularly, whereas our policy prevents it.