First Carbon Neutral ITAD and E-Waste Recycling Company, ERI, Details its Circularity Innovations in Latest Impact Report

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ERI, the nation’s first carbon neutral (and only truly circular) electronics recycler and ITAD services provider, recently shared details of its tech innovations, circularity best practices and radical transparency in its fifth annual Impact Report for Fiscal Year 2024, which can be accessed on the company’s website at ERIdirect.com.

ERI’s report summarizes the impact of its achievements from the previous year and demonstrates the company’s dedication to exceed its sustainability and circularity goals and benchmarks based on ongoing materiality reviews year-over-year. Among the notable accomplishments detailed in the report, ERI remains the world’s only ITAD/electronic recycling company to have achieved carbon neutral status at all of its facilities.

The report also highlights ERI’s unique focus on innovation. The fully illustrated document provides descriptions of a number of ESG-related highlights from last year, including:

• Details of the company’s new state-of-the-art proprietary alkaline battery recycling process;
• The company’s ISO 27001 certification;
• ERI’s critical role in CEP’s groundbreaking global consumer electronics design guide;
• ERI’s game-changing collaboration with Staples to establish heightened consumer opportunities to recycle electronics and batteries;
• Multiple honors and awards, including ERI receiving the SustainableIT Impact Award and ERI’s Chairman/CEO John Shegerian being named to City & State New York’s “Responsible 100” list;
• Continued improvements in ERI's technology to become more transparent, provide better services for customers while continuing to push sustainability and data security forward through innovation;
• New R&D focused on genuine circularity;
• and much more.

“ERI is proud to be the world’s first ITAD and electronics recycling company to achieve carbon neutral status for all our operations, which includes all eight of our industry-leading certified facilities,” said John Shegerian, ERI’s Chairman and CEO. “As our latest Impact report clearly demonstrates, we are continuing to build on this success and look forward to further growing our shareholders’ value – all while making the world a better and more sustainable place.”

ERI is the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and responsible hardware destruction company in the United States. ERI is certified at the highest level by all leading environmental and data security oversight organizations to de-manufacture, recycle, and refurbish every type of electronic device in an environmentally responsible manner. It is the first and only company in its industry to achieve carbon neutrality at all its facilities nationwide, and the first to achieve ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications for security and data protection. ERI has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy. For more information about ITAD services and e-waste recycling at ERI, call 1-800-ERI-DIRECT or visit https://eridirect.com.