Makor's Customer Impact Portal provides a variety of types of information to material generators. | Image courtesy of Makor Solutions[/caption]
A new offering from Makor Solutions allows organizations shipping used electronics to processors to track the environmental upsides of diverting material from disposal.
Makor Solutions, a Minneapolis-based ITAD and e-scrap software provider, released what it calls the Customer Impact Portal to the 100-plus users of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Of those electronics recovery entities, roughly half are in North America.
Announced on Sept. 18, the Customer Impact Portal allows material generators to see the environmental benefits - in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and metals recovery - that come from having e-Stewards- and R2-certified processors recycle or sell their electronics for reuse.
"This is a way to incentivize and educate customers as to why paying for disposing of electronics the right way is the right thing to do," said Mark Chodos, CEO of Makor Solutions. "If they're not asking for these numbers, it means they probably don't know the reasons for doing it the right way, and so this is another way to sell the benefits."
The Customer Impact Portal estimates the benefits based on the number and type of devices actually processed by the vendor, as well as whether they were recycled or reused.
The recycling benefits calculations are based on data from the Global Impact Calculator from e-Stewards, and the reuse benefits come from data from the Swedish Environmental Institute, Chodos explained.
[caption id="attachment_12093" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Makor's Customer Impact Portal provides a variety of types of information to material generators. | Image courtesy of Makor Solutions[/caption]
A new offering from Makor Solutions allows organizations shipping used electronics to processors to track the environmental upsides of diverting material from disposal.
Makor Solutions, a Minneapolis-based ITAD and e-scrap software provider, released what it calls the Customer Impact Portal to the 100-plus users of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Of those electronics recovery entities, roughly half are in North America.
Announced on Sept. 18, the Customer Impact Portal allows material generators to see the environmental benefits - in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and metals recovery - that come from having e-Stewards- and R2-certified processors recycle or sell their electronics for reuse.
"This is a way to incentivize and educate customers as to why paying for disposing of electronics the right way is the right thing to do," said Mark Chodos, CEO of Makor Solutions. "If they're not asking for these numbers, it means they probably don't know the reasons for doing it the right way, and so this is another way to sell the benefits."
The Customer Impact Portal estimates the benefits based on the number and type of devices actually processed by the vendor, as well as whether they were recycled or reused.
The recycling benefits calculations are based on data from the Global Impact Calculator from e-Stewards, and the reuse benefits come from data from the Swedish Environmental Institute, Chodos explained.
Makor's Customer Impact Portal provides a variety of types of information to material generators. | Image courtesy of Makor Solutions[/caption]
A new offering from Makor Solutions allows organizations shipping used electronics to processors to track the environmental upsides of diverting material from disposal.
Makor Solutions, a Minneapolis-based ITAD and e-scrap software provider, released what it calls the Customer Impact Portal to the 100-plus users of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Of those electronics recovery entities, roughly half are in North America.
Announced on Sept. 18, the Customer Impact Portal allows material generators to see the environmental benefits - in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and metals recovery - that come from having e-Stewards- and R2-certified processors recycle or sell their electronics for reuse.
"This is a way to incentivize and educate customers as to why paying for disposing of electronics the right way is the right thing to do," said Mark Chodos, CEO of Makor Solutions. "If they're not asking for these numbers, it means they probably don't know the reasons for doing it the right way, and so this is another way to sell the benefits."
The Customer Impact Portal estimates the benefits based on the number and type of devices actually processed by the vendor, as well as whether they were recycled or reused.
The recycling benefits calculations are based on data from the Global Impact Calculator from e-Stewards, and the reuse benefits come from data from the Swedish Environmental Institute, Chodos explained.
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