We don’t just measure carbon anymore. Now we measure minerals.
For the past year, Bloom ESG and e-Stewards have been building something we believe the electronics recycling and ITAD industry has genuinely needed: a rigorous, device-level environmental impact calculator that goes beyond carbon metrics and this week, Waste Dive covered it.
We’ve added a “critical metals conserved” metric to our environmental benefits calculator. That means companies processing end-of-life electronics can now quantify how much copper, steel, aluminium, gold, silver, and palladium they’re keeping in productive supply chains rather than losing to landfill or low-grade export, with lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements to follow.
Why does this matter right now?
The geopolitical conversation around critical minerals has shifted dramatically. Tariffs, trade disruptions and intensifying competition for the materials that underpin batteries, semiconductors and electronics manufacturing have made supply chain resilience a board-level issue.
Despite all the urgency, very few tools exist that can actually measure how much of this material is being recovered through responsible electronics recycling and refurbishment.
How we built it
Rather than relying on industry-wide estimates, our team physically disassembled and weighed components from specific device models, and cross-referenced data from smelter operations to understand exactly what’s recovered at a material level.
For ITAD companies and recyclers: your corporate clients — especially those with public net zero commitments or operations in the EU under CSRD — need reliable, auditable data.
The critical metals metric gives you exactly that. A new, quantified narrative about the supply chain resilience value you create, not just the carbon you avoid.
If you’d like to understand what this means for your business, reach out.
