Making a Difference

Best Practices

High-level discussions are important in moving the world toward electronics sustainability…

…but at the end of the day, we also believe strong, clear guidelines need to be part of the solution. SERI looks for opportunities to build collaborative, voluntary programs to guide best practices for our electronics throughout the electronics lifecycle.

Standards Development

SERI has demonstrated our commitment to an open and balanced consensus-based process for standards development, which as an ANSI Accredited Standards Developer, has been verified to be credible. And at the end of the day, credibility is paramount for any standard to have value.

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Today SERI is best known as the housing-body for the R2 Standard, and works with a coalition of multi-stakeholder partners to raise awareness of electronics repair and recycling issues around the world.

Certification

Standards tell us what we should do. Certifications are how we monitor and verify that we are meeting those standards.

Certifications are especially useful to build solutions and capacity without the burden of laws and regulations, and the public tax burden that is necessary to adequately monitor and enforce laws and regulations. But certification is different than regulation. Where regulation seeks to enforce strict compliance, certification is a method of continuous improvement that holds people accountable to fixing nonconformities and preventing them from recurring in the future. Instead of punishing organizations for their shortcomings to the regulations, certification forces them to fix their deficiencies in order to continually improve and remain certified.

While there are many certifications in the world, many certification programs are missing an independent organization with a material interest in the outcomes of those certifications. SERI is a truly independent nonprofit organization invested in the outcomes of our certification programs to support our overall mission. We support and monitor the Accreditation Bodies, Certification Bodies and certified organizations to promote consistent quality and outcomes for the overall program.

SERI’s most widely adopted certification program is R2. See how R2 Certification continues to grow and build capacity of qualified reuse and recycling facilities around the world.