New ESWI software to enable carbon trading and reduce energy consumption

E-Waste Systems is launching new software that can measure the energy use of electronics to assist companies in reducing energy consumption, complying with e-waste recycling rules and facilitate carbon trading.

The technology should enable a groundbreaking public carbon credit trading system to the e-waste industry.

The technology has been developed by the electronics reverse logistics company E-Waste Systems (EWSI), and Village Green Global (VGG).

The software is integrated with VGG’s SMARTWeb system, an energy reporting and carbon accounting tool offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) to large greenhouse gas emitters and other organisations to reduce their energy and operating costs, validate their emissions, document their reductions, and support carbon credit trading.

The emissions from electronic goods imported to the US increased 300 per cent from 170 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1997 to 470 million mt tonnes in 2004, according to the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.

Recycling electronics recovers materials that would otherwise be thrown away and cause environmental contamination in a landfill, EWSI has said.

Recycling these materials requires less energy and lowers the need for mining virgin natural resources, which in turn reduces the carbon footprint of electronics through the lifetime, the company says.