UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

General Services Administration

Catskill Conference - August 25, 2011

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

• Component of Federal Bureau of Prisons

• Established in 1934 by statute & Executive Order

• Provides training & work experience to Federal inmates

• Receives NO appropriations – entirely self-sustaining

• Trade name - UNICOR

UNICOR’s Positive Impact

• Inmates in UNICOR are 24% less likely to recidivate upon release

• Supports small businesses (more

than 60% of UNICOR purchases)

• Essential to maintaining safe and

secure correctional facilities

UNICOR – 7 Business Groups

Clothing/Textiles

Electronics

Fleet Solutions

Industrial Products

Office Furniture

Recycling

Services

UNICOR Recycling Locations

• 7 processing factoriesAtwater, CA Fort Dix, NJLeavenworth, KS Lewisburg, PAMarianna, FL Texarkana, TXTucson, AZ

• 7 collection centersAtlanta, GA Denver, COMiami, FL Phoenix, AZSan Francisco, CA Sheridan, ORWashington, DC Fort Worth, TX (Oct, 2011)

• Multi-stakeholder group led by EPA

• Goal - develop safe & environmentally sound standards

• Result – “Responsible Recycling Practices for Electronics Recyclers” a.k.a. “R2”

• Ensures best practices & provides essential assurances to customers

• An electronics recycler may only be certified as meeting the R2 standards by a 3rd party auditor – very rigorous

Electronics RecyclingIndustry Standards – R2

UNICOR Recycling FactoriesR2 Certified

Lewisburg, PA – R2 Certified Leavenworth, KS – R2 Certified

Marianna, FL – R2 Certified Fort Dix, NJ – R2 Certified Texarkana, TX – Sept 1st (next week) Atwater, CA – Sept 30th

Tucson, AZ – Oct 19th

• Interagency task force co-chaired by:

• White House Council on Environmental Quality

• Environmental Protection Agency

• General Services Administration

National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship

• Report issued July 20th

• Four over-arching goals:

• Build incentives for design of greener electronics

• Ensure Federal Government leads by example

• Increase safe/effective management & handling of used electronics in U.S.

• Reduce harm from U.S. exports of e-waste; improve safe handling of used electronics in developing countries

National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship

• Ensure Federal Government leads by example

Establish policy on used Federal electronics to:

• Maximize re-use (UNICOR does!)

• Clear data stored on used equip (UNICOR does!)

• Ensure all Federal electronics processed by certified recyclers (UNICOR is R2 Certified!)

• Improve tracking used electronics throughout lifecycle – make data available (UNICOR does!)

National Strategyfor Electronic Stewardship

UNICOR’s Solution

• Donation in lieu of abandonment and destruction

• Landfill - avoidance 43 million lbs of material collected in FY 2010

• Benefits the donating agency, the environment, and public safety & health

• Shipping

• Sorting

• Testing

• Reconditioning / Refurbishing

• Component Recovery

• Residual Material Recovery

UNICOR RecyclingProcess for Incoming Material

UNICOR - Data Security

• Emphasized in National Strategy

• Hard drives wiped in accordance with Dept of Defense standard 5220.22-M• 3rd party forensic inspection - verifies

• Destruction – hard drives & other media shredded to no more than ¾ of inch

• FREE shipping (trailer loads)

• FREE refurbishment

• FREE recycling

• FREE data destruction

• Costs avoided!!!

Every pound of electronic material donated to UNICOR results in savings of $0.20 in Federal appropriations that would otherwise be required by Department of Justice for inmate program costs.

UNICOR - the BEST Optionfor Federal E-Waste Disposal

UNICOR -- Accepted Items

• Computer equipment (desktops, laptops, printers, monitors, mainframes/servers, modems, CD-rom drives, plotters, circuit boards, memory sticks/boards, hard/floppy drives)

• Office equipment (copiers, fax machines, shredders, power strips)

• Communication equipment (cell phones, Blackberrys, PDAs )

• A/V equipment (TVs, radios, cable boxes, Tivos, DVRs, MP3s)

• Games (X-box, Game Boy, Play station, Nintendo, Wii)

• Misc electronics (calculators, cameras, electronic scrap)

UNICOR - - Items NOT Accepted

• No Hazardous Equipment

• Oils / PCBs

• Acids

• Refrigerants

• Paints or liquids of any kind

• Radioactive material

UNICOREnvironmental Stewardship

• R2 Certified

• OSHA compliant

• Compliant with all Federal, state and local EPA regulations

• Full-time Safety Manager at each location

• 3RD party inspections

Todd BaldauDeputy General Manager

UNICOR Recycling Business Group(202) 353-2091 office(301) 536-8797 cell

tbaldau@central.unicor.gov

www.unicor.gov/recycling/

Questions?