Recycle for Life

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.

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 shipping more of its waste to South East Asia, but now Vietnam and Thailand are curbing imported E-waste as well. In 2016, the world population discarded 49 million tons of e-waste which is equivalent to about 4500 Eiffel towers. It is estimated that by 2021, that number will grow to more than 60 million.

Electronic waste or E waste encompasses everything from old cellphones, to VCR’s, fax
machines, TVs and everything in between. As the world and its inhabitants become increasingly dependent on technology, levels of electronic waste are reaching unprecedented heights with the world in desperate need of a sustainable management solution for this rapidly growing category of waste.

Even through electronic waste is nothing new, there are a number of issues that are causing it to become an issue. With nearly each day, technology has become more and more integrated into our daily lives. Homes can now be equipped with smart systems, while our mobile devices serve as our cameras, calendars, and access to entertainment. Our TVs now connects us with favorite shows. The point is the world of technology has changed drastically and therefore has become a necessity in our daily lives in the last few decades. And while this has made our lives and the way we communicate more convenient, and more an advanced than ever, it also adds up to uncontrolled consumption.

What is Recycle for life?
Recycle for life (RFL) is a California Department of Toxic Substance Control Registered Universal E-waste Handler. RFL transports all e-waste recycling to an Environmental Protection Agency certified facility.

While existing solutions offer to solve just one problem at a time, our team is up to build a secure, useful, & easy-to-use recycling rewards program based on a tokenized private blockchain.

At the end, Our aims to integrate all companies, employees, and business assets into a unified recycling blockchain ecosystem, which will make recycling truly efficient and fun.

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.

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.

The state of e-waste recycling worldwide and USA
Recycling e-waste is practiced both formally and informally. Proper or formal e-waste recycling usually involves disassembling then electronics, separating and categorizing the contents by material and cleaning them. (6) The US Environmental protection agency works bilaterally with governments and environmental officials around the world on e-waste management. The US EPA and Taiwan Environmental protection Administration coordinate the International E-waste Management Network which works to bring together environmental officials from all over the world so as to exchange best practices on e-waste management since 2011. These are some of the crucial solutions being sought to address this growing menace of e-waste management in the world including the USA.

Problems surrounding metals and E-waste Increases the need to mine Finite resources
Cellphones, computers and other technological products contain several valuable materials
acquired through intensive mining operations. The recycling of such materials from our old
gadgets can allow for less mining and thus conserving finite resources.
According to EPA the recycling of 1 million cellphones yields 35,000 Ibs of Copper, 772 Ibs
of silver, 75 Ibs of gold and 33 Ibs of palladium. Dosomething.org noted that over $60 million
in gold and silver in the form of phones is dumped by Americans annually.

Recycle for Life is one of the many organizations in the USA that has been focusing on e-waste
management and recycling. The company being a professional e-waste handler, intends to use
blockchain technology in order to encourage efficient e-waste disposal and recycling. RFL intends to introduce a system of rewards and bonus inform of cryptocurrency tokens for the disposal and recycling of e-waste and hazardous metals. The RFL coin system will be a method of providing the public with an incentive to recycle waste aimed at electronic waste and metals.
RFL will leverage on a blockchain based system to allow for generation of tokens for rewarding
those that have proven of recycling and disposing electronic waste safely.

Recycle for Life Blockchain Solution
The greatest inventions sometimes weren’t intended for their current purposes and this also applies for the blockchain technology. Since it is tied to digital fiat cryptocurrency, blockchain has shown that it is versatility in terms of applications can be used in the e-waste problem. Blockchain can help improve the recycling part. Our system will be a reward system for recyclers of e-waste. We have noted that the current recycling management is prone to cheating and manipulation. Therefore, our system through the ethereum blockchain network, we will give tokens for anyone who shows a prove of recycling e-waste. The system based on blockchain will distribute tokens to colleges that sign up for our newsletter, and Recycling Awareness Association. We will distribute 20-100 tokens for a sign up with 5 emails with others that show an interest in E-waste recycling. Also, will list the colleges that receive our tokens on our RFL website as RAA members.

Recycle For life Ecosystem and Tokens
Basically, our ecosystems are an incentive-based system whereby we seek to distribute tokens for colleges that subscribe to our newsletter, users who forward to at least 5 emails where each would get between 20 to 100 ERC 20 tokens. Our newsletter will periodically educate and inform our subscribers on E-waste problem, how to handle properly and all related information regarding e-waste. Also, we will be seeking E-waste handlers and processors to reward them with our tokens if they produce a receipt showing that they have recycled their E-waste. Another target for our tokens will be those that join the Recycling Awareness Association. This is a nationwide network which seeks to increase awareness regarding E-waste and metals recycling.

The Tokens will be listed in major cryptocurrency exchanges. This will enable recipients of our
tokens to be able to convert them for cash in all the cryptocurrency exchanges where we will list
these tokens.
In addition, the company will be able to buy back the tokens for users that have them. Those
with the tokens will also be able to convert them to other gift items.

ABOUT TOKEN
The RFL TOKEN
Once you begin recycling you will be eligible to receive RFL tokens. Here is how the program works.

Bring your eligible electronic items to your participating local e-waste recycling center. Recycle your goods and you will be provided a receipt. Upload the reciept to us along with your Ethereum address and we will send you the amount of tokens based on the amount of weight you recycled.

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Token Details

Token: RCL
Token exchange rate: 1Eth=100RFL
Total Supply: 1,000,000,000(1 billion tokens)
Project protocol: ERC 20
Payment: Ethereum
Recycle for Life will issue 1 billion tokens without any additional tokens.
The tokens will be listed in several exchanges to be announced later.

TOKEN SALE
Recycle for life token is an ERC20 token that will be released on the Ethereum Network. Our token is compatibile with third-party ERC20 services wallets, exchanges etc, and provides easy-to-use integration.
https://etherscan.io/token/0x3477bd2648a9a41a75899df78fd709cfb2df5da8