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Measurements Of Recycling E-Waste Essay

¶ … recycling company which will located in every apple store worldwide. In this essay please answer the question below according to this project. Consider the goals (to open a stand in every apple store for people to recycle their products) that you and your team have established as a result of your research project thus far, and define a set of metrics to reflect either LCA or measuerable goals of your venture:

Our objective is defining a set of metrics to measure the measurable goals of our organization.

The aim of our organization is to recycle e-waste. E-waste is all things connected to computer and electronics such as printing material, DVD, apps, cellular phones, and so forth. There is a huge amount of e-waste that occurs and that ruins the environment. What we would like to do is to make the public aware of this problem and set up a program (similar to that of corporations such as Apple, Sony, and Salvation Army), that will recycle the e-waste.

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The metrics are important because they tell us whether we need to rethink certain aspects of our program and assess how to improve it. They also point direction to specific aspects that need improving. Best of all, they enable us to implement change, monitor the change, and be on top of our idea.
Apple uses a set of metrics of evaluating their recycling program and it is so creative and helpful that we may model their system for ours that we will place in their stores.

Apple Corp. has their recycle bins where people deposit their e-waste. Every recycle bin has an identification tag that is recorded by the recycling truck which, in turn, converts the amount to RecycleBank points. This is then tallied and people are rewarded according to the number. THe identification tag serves as the metric since it…

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