EPA honors Sprint with the first-ever SMM Electronics Award

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Sprint has turned out to be the proud winner of the first-ever Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Challenge Award in recognition of their outstanding recycling efforts. The award was won in the non-product category of the award. This is the third award that Sprint has received from the EPA this year. Earlier, the company had won the Climate Leadership Award and the WasteWise Partner of the Year.

The award was distributed in a ceremony that took place at the SMM Electronics Reuse and Recycling Forum at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Crystal City, Va. Mathy Stanislaus, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response presented the awards.

“Device reuse and recycling plays not only a critical role in Sprint’s business success, but also in helping us to significantly reduce our environmental footprint. Our mobile device buyback program has helped Sprint avoid more than $1 billion in costs and has helped put more than $100 million back in customers’ pockets.” said Jeff Auman, Vice President-Product Operations at Sprint.

In 2013, Sprint had set Guinness World Record for the number of cell phones recycled in one week: 103,582 – more than doubling the previous record. Since 2001, Sprint has diverted nearly 60 million consumer devices from landfills.