R2 Newsletter

R2 NEWSLETTER: APRIL 2024 You’ve been hearing us talk a lot about the new Electronics Sustainability Summit and its debut in Austin, Texas, this October, but we’re excited to finally show you some of what we’ve been working on and what will make this the one event this year you won’t want to miss! We’re … Read more

   R2 NEWSLETTER: MARCH 2024 We’re thrilled to announce that building off the success of lastyear’s event, SERI is once again a content partner with E-Waste World this summer in Frankfurt, Germany, curating a full two days of contentin the Circular Electronics content track! Our goal is to help attendees rethink their relationships with electronics … Read more

R2 NEWSLETTER: FEBRUARY 2024 In January, SERI announced the launch of a new conference called the Electronics Sustainability Summit, to be held October 22-24, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. This was made possible afteracquiring the E-Reuse Conference. While we intend to retain the things that made the E-Reuse Conference so special, the … Read more

THE ELECTRONICS SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT POWERED BY SERI This month we wanted to start with some big and exciting news – SERI is thrilled to announce it has acquired the E-Reuse Conference and will rebrand it as the Electronics Sustainability Summit for an October 2024 launch. Our intent is to build upon what has become a … Read more

FEATURE STORY CHAMPIONING ELECTRONICS SUSTAINABILITY At this time of year, I like to reflect on the past 12 months, thinking about our learnings and our accomplishments. One of my biggest takeawaysis that our team at SERI is extremely ambitious and deeply passionate about our mission of achieving electronics sustainability. This is evident in all the … Read more

FEATURE STORY: The R2 Technical Advisory Committee (R2 TAC) that drafted R2v3 understood the benefits of separating the R2 Standard into two parts;Core Requirements, which all R2 Facilities need to conform to, andProcess Requirements or the Appendices, which are only applicable to an R2 Facility if that facilitconducts specific processes. For example,those R2 Facilities that … Read more