E-Scrap Exportation
This session will examine the challenges, considerations, and opportunities presented by foreign markets for electronic scrap. Learn what is happening with electronic scrap that is collected in the United States and exported for recovery and what environmental issues this presents. Find out about new regulations in China and in developing countries and other pressures that are making it more difficult to export low value scrap, and how tariff barriers limit imports of quality reusable components.
Moderator: Paul Hagen, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Panelists: Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network
Bob Tonetti, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Timothy Anderson, World Computer Exchange
Mark Dallura, Chase Electronics

2:00 pm
Repair & Reuse Markets This session will examine the barriers, considerations, and opportunities presented by reuse of electronics and their component markets for electronic scrap.
Moderator: Robin Ingenthron, ElectroniCycle Inc.
Panelists: Don Cressin, National Electronics Service Dealers Association
Robert Houghton, Redemtech, Inc.
Larry Novicky, UNICOR Federal Prison Industries

U.S. Legislation & Regulations
This session will include an examination of important developments in the United States on the legislative and regulatory fronts affecting management of discarded electronics, including EPA’s proposed rulemaking on CRTs. There will be a review of liability protections for recyclers under Superfund. New laws, proposed and enacted, at the state and local level concerning electronics will also be discussed, including resolutions from several major cities concerning takeback of electronics.
Moderator: Gordon Hui, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Panelists: Marilyn Goode, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Steve Rowe, Preston, Gates, Ellis, LLP
Mark Kennedy, California Integrated Waste Management Board

8:00 am
Government Networking Session
This is a forum for government participants to compare notes and discuss how best to work together on enhancing product stewardship of electronics. Moderator: Clare Lindsay, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

10:00 am
Future of Obsolescence
Progress or planned obsolescence? What problems and opportunities lay ahead for EPR2? Will the products of tomorrow be greener? Which of today’s products (VCRs, camcorders, Pentium 2s) will be pushed out at the end of the pipe?
Moderator: Rexie LeStrange, City of Manteca, California
Panelists: Michael Petricone, Consumer Electronics Association
Bradley Kuhn, Free Software Foundation
Steven Wyatt, Computers & Education/Computer Recycling Center

Product Stewardship
Product Stewardship recognizes that all actors in the product chain – manufacturers, retailers, consumers, recyclers, and government – need to work together to reduce the life cycle environmental impacts of products. Product Stewardship also includes the waste resulting from these products when they are no longer useful. This session will address a variety of initiatives that are seeking to promote product stewardship for electronics and end-of-life electronics.
Moderator: Gary Davis, National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative
Panelists: Heather Bowman, Electronics Industry Alliance
Ted Smith, Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition
Scott Cassel, Product Stewardship Institute
Clare Lindsay, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:30 pm
Design for Environment
This panel will address specific design changes implemented by companies (in the United States and abroad) that facilitate reuse and recycling at end of life to include design for upgradability, changes in material composition, and innovative design techniques that promote disassembly. The discussion will also include an assessment of how these changes improve end of life recovery.
Moderator: Eric Most, INFORM Inc.
Panelists: Susan Landry, Albemarle Corporation
Kristina Bergstrand, TCO Development
Alan Phipps, Product Stewardship Institute

Collection Initiatives
End-of-life electronics management is being discussed on a national, regional, state, and local level. To date, the infrastructure for collecting, reusing, and recycling electronics in the United States has not kept pace with this growing waste stream, and the number of electronic products entering the waste stream is projected to increase dramatically unless reuse and recycling options are expanded. This session will highlight a variety of projects from national policy initiatives on creating infrastructure to local collection projects relating to e-waste collection.
Moderator: Chris Beling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New England
Panelists: Lynn Rubinstein, Northeast Recycling Council
Claudette Reed, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3
Tricia Conroy, e4 Partners