In our last article, we discussed the Weekly deployment base method. This method addressed the Recycling firms, with lesser surveillance needs. Electronic waste was usually itemized into theirrespective Covered Electronic Device (CED) categories and shipped accordingly.

What if a recycling, Information Technology Asset Disposition (ITAD) or refurbishing firm have a largeheterogeneous CED pool with many downstream vendors/brokers to manage? What if a governmental and/or non-governmental organization wants to monitor their municipal e-waste flows under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) initiatives? For example, since COVID-19, many processors, to save onshipping cost, had to send heterogeneous CED cargo bins downstream. How can they enhance their downstream visibility?

The Distributed Deployment method takes into account a wide variety of CED's. Let’s review an example. Entity E is an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) organization. It has four different CED channels to monitor. These CED's are sent in the same cargo bins to maximize available space and cost.

From the above tables, the quantity of pallets equal 28 with a value of $8,944. To monitor the shipment, each CED group will have one tracker. Therefore a minimum of four trackers will be needed for the cargo bin. The cost of monitoring will be about $ 800. This is approximately 9% of the overall investment for monitoring each CED type daily for one year. Once the cargo hits a transfer station, the trackers will continue to follow the shipment to final destinations, providing a level of security downstream as well. With a service like the Green Tracking Service, a company will also have the addition of dashboards to monitor and provide a digital footprint for all CED flows. Just image if one had to hire a team to do this?