Environmental Responsibility

Environmental Stewardship

GES works to solve problems, not relocate them. Loading a container and shipping scrap indiscriminately is reckless. We follow best practices of electronics recycling in the best interest of the environment. Global Environmental Services has adopted the requirements of the Basel Convention and we require all of our downstream partners do the same.

Practicing What We Preach

Each and every employee, vendor and business partner at GES believes in and lives our mission statement. We believe in environmental sustainability first and foremost.

Global Environmental Service's Impact on the World

We are an electronics recycler that does something very rare in this industry.

We don't use landfills.

We don't export.

We truly care about the people who deal with the horrific results of illegal dumping in their communities. Citizens of third world countries should not suffer the consequences of our electronic waste. We will not participate in that process.

We work to uphold environmentally sustainable practices that meet or exceed Environmental Protection Agency requirements for zero landfill operations. At the end of the day, it all adds up to the best possible value for our customers.

Not to mention peace of mind.

GES's e-Stewards Pledge

"Every year, an estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped. Four billion pounds of electronic waste, or e-waste, was discarded in the United States in 2005, accounting for between 2% and 4% of the municipal solid waste stream. As much as 87.5% of this was incinerated or dumped in landfills. Of the remaining 12.5% collected for recycling, industry sources claim that about 80% is exported to developing countries where it is processed in primitive conditions, severely endangering the environment, workers and communities. Pollution created by irresponsible e-waste processing can also come back to haunt those in the exporting countries as well in the form of air pollution fallout via long-range transport."

— The Basel Action Network

Global Environmental Services is proud to have adopted the e-Stewards pledge as our policy for electronics recycling at the highest level of responsibility.

• We will not allow any hazardous e-waste we handle or control to be sent to solid waste (nonhazardous waste) landfills or incinerators for disposal or energy recovery, either directly or through intermediaries.
• Consistent with decisions of the international Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, we will not allow the export of hazardous e-Waste we handle or control to be exported from developed to developing countries, either directly or through intermediaries, throughout final disposition.
• We will not allow any e-waste we handle to be sent to prisons for recycling either directly or through intermediaries.
• We assure that we have an "environmental management system" in place that is either certified or otherwise adequate for the nature and size of the company's operations, and that our operation meets best practices.
• We commit to ensuring that the entire recycling chain, including downstream intermediaries and recovery operations such as smelters, are meeting all applicable environmental and health regulations. Every effort will be made to only make use of those facilities (e.g. smelters), which provide the most efficient and least polluting recovery services available globally.
• We agree to provide visible tracking of hazardous e-waste throughout the product recycling chain. The tracking information should show the final disposition of all hazardous e-waste materials. If there is a concern about trade secrets, an independent auditor acceptable to parties concerned can be used to verify compliance with this pledge.
• We agree to provide adequate assurance (e.g. bonds) to cover environmental and other costs of the closure of our facility, and additionally to provide liability insurance for accidents and incidents involving wastes under our control and ownership. Additionally we will ensure due diligence throughout the product chain.
• We further agree to support design for environment and toxics use reduction programs and/or legislation for electronic products.