Recycle for Life
Introduction
Recycle for Life is a California Department of Toxic Substance Control Registered Universal
E-waste Handler. RFL is involved in the transportation of all e-waste to environmental protection
Agency certified Facilities. Recycle for Life started operations as a company in January of 2010.
It was created as a nationwide ink and toner cartridge recycling company. Recycle for life has
collected over 500,000 ink and toner cartridges in the first year of its existence. In march 2012,
Recycle for Life transitioned to the business of commercial e-waste logistics as an e-waste handler in Southern California.
Last year, Recycle for Life delivered over 1 million pounds of e-waste picked up from over 8,800
businesses since 2010 and have 3,450 active clients. Keith Harris, the founder of Recycle for Life
has been involved in the recycling and reuse of electronic accessories since 1996. Recycle for Life
wants to leverage on blockchain technology to create a system based on the blockchain network that will reward subscribers to their newsletter and to the Recycling Awareness Association.
These tokens will also be awarded to recycling plants, recycling processors, users with recycling
receipts and users who forward to at least 5 emails to others information regarding our e-waste
recycling services.
Mission
Our mission as RFL is securing a green and safe environment through the provision of e-waste
management services. We aim to create massive e-waste recycling awareness across the country
through a blockchain based token reward system.
Background and Problem
When China banned 24 kinds of solid waste in September 2018, countries such as the USA,
United Kingdom, Australia and Japan realized they had a huge problem. Until last year, China
accepted 70 percent of the World’s electronic waste. Electronic waste included the discarded
computers, cellphones and printers, televisions, microwaves, smoke alarms and other electronic
equipment and parts. After china stopped accepting this e-waste out of concern for its environment, Europe and North America began
What in e-waste?
Electronic devices are made of very complex mix of materials that include gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, lithium, cobalt and other metals. The U.S Environment Protection
Agency notes that one metric ton of circuit boards can contain 40 to 800 times the amount
of gold and 30 to 40 times the amount of copper mined from one metric ton of ore in the
United States. These precious metals can be reclaimed through a recycling process.
But on the other hand, electronic devices also comprise toxic metals such as lead, mercury,
cadmium and beryllium, polluting PVC, plastic and hazardous chemicals such as brominated flame retardants which can harm human health and the environment.
In 2016 alone, the estimated value of recoverable materials in global e-waste waste$64.6
billion, but only 20 percent was properly recycled to enable recovery of valuable materials.
Much of the rest is dumped in landfills where toxic chemicals can leach from this e-waste
and end up contaminating the water supply. As more consumers buy electronic equipment,
manufacturers are beginning to face shortages of the raw materials required to make their
products, thus reclaiming and reusing the materials from discarded products and waste, a
process known as urban mining which makes a lot of economic and environmental sense. A
recent study in China found that mining copper, aluminum and gold from ore costs 13 times
more than recovering metals through the urban mining of e-waste.
TOKEN SALE
Start Jun 22, 2020 (9:00AM GMT)
Number of tokens for sale 1,000,000,000 RFL (100%)
End Jul 31, 2020 (11:00AM GMT)
Tokens exchange rate 1 RFL = $0.20
Acceptable currencies ETH, BTC, LTC
Minimal transaction amount 0.001 ETH
Distribution of tokens
Use of proceeds
ROADMAP
March 2019
Start of the Recycle for life Development.
April 2019
Development of ICO platform
June 2019
Launch of Social Network
August 2019
ICO preparation & Whitepaper
June 2020
Start limited token sale
July 2020
Complete token sale
August 2020
Begin token exchange program
September 2020
Recycling Awareness Association forms
October 2020
Token Exchange listings
November 2020
Create Awareness Rating (AR) make post able to SM
December 2020
Launched of mobile Apps
TEAM
Keith Harris - CEO
Mel Gonzales - Marketing
Anastasia Reut - Developer
Bogdan Botov - Blockchain Developer
ADVISORS
David Moon
Benjamin Föckersperger
Adrian Lam
INFORMATION
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