In 2023, Acer has recycled a total of 14,995 tonnes of electronic products, with the recycling rate of 15.9% in Asia, Americas and Europe regions.

The Acer Group continues to be committed to working for sustainable lifestyles and a sustainable environment. To this end, we pursue the recycling of limited resources and good mechanisms for recycling waste in hopes of creating new value for our products. We actively support a variety of measures promoting recycling around the world, along with Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR), and are committed to working with stakeholders including governments, consumers, and channels/retailers to shoulder the responsibility for recycling and managing electronic waste. Around the world, Acer follows local government standards for various electronic product recycling programs and provides convenient recycling methods for consumers to improve the efficiency of waste recycling in the hope of contributing to resource sustainability.

Taiwan

Recycling of waste IT products in Taiwan is handled through a publicly managed and operated system. Operators receive fees from the Resource Recycling Management Fund based on annual operation volumes and recycling clearance and disposal rates. The Recycling Fund Management Board under the Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, is in charge of determining recyclables, issuing treatment subsidies, auditing and verifying treatment volumes, and managing recyclers’ treatment and administrative operations. Taiwan offers a wide spectrum of waste IT product recycling channels, able to utilize clean-up teams, second-hand goods operators, resource recycling organizations, and recycling locations established at IT product retail sales sites. Acer coordinates efforts with Taiwan' recycling system by not only making annual payments to the Resource Recycling Management Fund, but also participating in public hearings on recycling, clearance and treatment fee rates to better understand Resource Recycling Management Fund operations and provide suggestions on recycling, clearance and treatment fee rate adjustments. For information about resource recycling in Taiwan, please refer to the EPA' Recycling Fund Management Board website.           
 

• Executive Yuan' Environmental Protection Administration Fund Management Resource Recycling website.
• Toll free resource recycling hotline: +886-(0)800-085717

In compliance with environmental regulations announced by the Ministry of Environment, we take responsibility for the recycling of discarded items, including computers and monitors. We also offer a brand-agnostic consumer electronics recycling service through our service centers across Taiwan. In collaboration with professional recyclers, we sort and refine lithium batteries to be reused as raw materials for new products, thereby reducing the extraction of upstream raw materials. In 2023, including the recycling efforts of our partners, we recycled a total of 1.5 tons of waste batteries and approximately 2,700 consumer electronic products of various brands. The profits from these activities were donated to the Taipei Orphan Welfare Foundation, amounting to a total of NT$ 150,000.

Japan

Acer continues to work with Japan’s PC3R promotion Association computer recycling organization, enabling consumers to register items for recycling online or by email and then send them in by mail. The Association also organizes for the reuse of any products collected that can still produce cyclical value. In Japan, Acer has set up PC Recycling Centers in hopes of encouraging customers to recycle long-used products and upgrade to newer products still in their usable lives. At the same time, this project also ensures that customers’ information security is protected.    

 

Australia

Electronic waste is managed by the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS) under the Australian federal government, which manages the recycling of televisions, computers, printers, computer parts and peripheral products. The objectives of NTCRS are to reduce waste that ends up in landfill, increase recycling rates and provide convenient access to recycling services for households and small businesses throughout Australia. Acer collaborates with NTCRS-approved Ecycle Solutions recyclers to recycle e-waste.      
 

Pan-America

Acer continued to operate its regulatory and voluntary end-of-life electronics recycling channels in Pan America to ensure consumers have convenient and environmentally responsible options for recycling their end-of-life products.

Product recycling

Acer’s Tech Trade-up program continued to operate in 2023. The program incentivizes Acer’s customers for returning aging devices during IT refresh cycles, to protect the data integrity. Acer also provides value back to its customers or transfers that value into savings for new products. In turn, Acer reuses or properly recycles the old products to extend their life and prevent their valuable resources from entering the waste stream. Acer is a participating member in the recycling program, Green Eletron, established by industry members and the Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association (ABINEE). On behalf of its customers, Green Eletron contracts and coordinates collection, transportation and environmentally appropriate final disposal services for discarded electronics. The program has over 7,000 collection points for batteries and electronic products nationally.

Battery recycling 

Due to the demand for cobalt in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries and also the child labor associated with the mining of raw cobalt, in 2023, Acer continued to support the recycling of the lithium-ion batteries contained in mobile electronic products via its Call2Recycle program license and its own internal process. In addition to the Call2Recycle program support, Acer collected approximately 2,700 kilograms of spent batteries through its customer service program in 2023 for responsible recycling, which represents a 200% increase over the previous year.             

Packaging material recycling 

In 2023, after Acer’s participation in the rule development process for the new producer responsibility recycling program for packaging in Ontario, Canada, the program was successfully launched. In addition, a similar program in New Brunswick began implementation in late 2023. Acer continues to be involved as additional provinces transition to or begin new EPR programs for packaging and paper products in 2024 and beyond. In the United States, Acer began discussions with producer responsibility organizations to address the phase-in of new EPR programs for packaging that will begin development in 2024.          
 

Recycling Advocacy

Acer continued its seat on the Board of Directors for the Washington Materials Management and Financing Authority (WMMFA). The mission of the WMMFA is to provide responsible end of life recycling for the citizens of Washington State in compliance with state law and Department of Ecology direction, and in the most cost-effective manner for our members. The board of directors is comprised of 11 seats and is responsible for managing the business and affairs of the WMMFA as it executes the state recycling plans for its 250+ registered manufacturer members.                      
 

Responsible Recycling 

Worldwide, Acer Group is working to strengthen the environmental sustainability aspect of social responsibility through responsible recycling models. Acer America continues to require that all controllable recycling schemes ensure appropriate disposal and management of end-of-life electronics devices, components and materials, as well as safeguarding customer data through the implementation of data destruction procedures. Acer requires that all contracted suppliers and second tier suppliers comply with Acer waste disposal standards for the management of end-of-life products and still has a strict requirement for its recycling vendors to maintain either the Responsible Recycling (R2) or eStewards standards certifications. Acer also continued its recycling vendor auditing program to verify vendor practices and to ensure downstream processors are held accountable as well. For more information on Acer America's recycling program, please visit Acer America's recycling website.

Our products mainly consist of materials and components which could be reused or recycled during the end of life stage. Based on our calculation, the notebook product has estimated 95% of reuse and recyclable rate.