Silvanus³⁶⁰ for Manufacturers (www.Silvanus360.com) enables producers to manage the sustainable reverse logistics supply chain with auditable tracking, referrals, and confident downstream reuse or recycling.

Benefits for Manufacturers

• Achieve environmental compliance goals
• Maintain proper recycling regulatory requirements, reports, and forms
• Keep up with diverse recycling forms, reports, and requirements
• Earn extra state credits by supporting and tracking rural collections
• Earn extra state credits for verifiable reuse, proper recycling, and donations
• Reduce expense of logistics
• Reduce handling expense

What are you getting for your money?

Producer Responsibility requires manufacturers to provide financial support for collection, transportation, and recycling of retired products, parts, and materials. Manufacturers pay for this processing, but what do you get for your money?

Silvanus³⁶⁰ provides manufacturers with

• Transparent tracking
• A complete audit trail
• Automated accurate government reporting for compliance
• Opportunity for reduced logistics expense
• Opportunity to claim higher credits from participating state and regional environmental compliance programs
• Opportunity for asset recover profit share from participating recyclers.

Silvanus³⁶⁰ provides manufacturers with unprecedented visibility to retired product from collection and recycling. Accumulated and centralized reporting from participating collectors and recyclers provides manufacturers with trends by geographic region, reporting by weight and product detail to accommodate internal corporate social responsibility efforts and government compliance.

In some cases, the ability to provide a comprehensive solution for recycling, and provide a detailed report of the effectiveness of the recycling efforts, can alleviate financial penalties levied on the manufacturer for producer responsibility by various government agencies.

Many regulations place the burden of collection, transportation, recycling, and consumer education on manufacturers. This is often referred to as “producer responsibility”. Many regulations require manufacturers to pay a yearly registration fee, submit a collection and recycling plan, and report on previous year progress. Many regulations establish quotas for manufacturers based on quantities sold, and also burden manufacturers to share the cost and responsibility to help process orphaned product for which the original manufacturer brand is no longer available. How well do you know the numbers for the products collected and recycled in each area? Are you collecting information on all product that is being processed with your brand name on it?

• Some regulations offer extra credit toward collection and recycling quotas if the manufacturer exceeds goals in a calendar year, and surplus credits can sometimes be applied to the following year.

• Some regulations offer extra credit toward collection and recycling quotas for product that has been collected in rural areas. It is important for manufacturers to have accurate visibility to the original source of the product and the location of the collection.
  

• Some regulations offer extra credit toward collection and recycling quotas for items that are reused or remarketed. It is important to have accurate visibility to downstream asset recovery.
  

• Some regulations offer extra credit toward collection and recycling quotas of items that are donated to not-for-profit charitable organizations or educational institutions. In some cases, tax credits may also apply for donations. It is important for manufacturers to have accurate visibility to the downstream process.
  

• Some regulations have very strict guidelines and financial penalties for items that are discovered in a landfill with the producer name or label on the items. For this reason it is important to have accurate visibility to downstream processes.
  

Accurate Visibility Today

Silvanus³⁶⁰ enables manufacturers to rapidly develop a network of connected recyclers. Incorporate existing participating service providers as collection locations. Access reports and visibility in real time from recyclers using the Silvanus360 application, and gather additional data from collectors and recyclers connected to the EcoGrid360 platform. The information is waiting for you.

With Silvanus³⁶⁰, participating manufacturers can provide lists of product and model for rapid and accurate identification by collectors and recyclers.

Silvanus³⁶⁰ provides simple and easy solutions for communication, tracking, and source identification.

Silvanus³⁶⁰ incorporates standard best practices for sharing information, thereby enabling common and comprehensive data gathering. Silvanus360 is an affordable application for collectors and recyclers, enabling all organizations with access to powerful software utilities. With XML standard electronic communications, Silvanus360 does not restrict stakeholders from using other independent or third party applications, thereby maintaining an open architecture for maximum collaboration. The result is incredibly simplified connectivity and data transfer between partners from end-to-end, improving processing efficiencies, and collecting accurate information for government compliance reporting.

Low Cost Materials for Tomorrow

With Silvanus³⁶⁰, participating manufacturers can coordinate with recyclers to validate the downstream management of raw materials, and identify renewable resources for future manufacturing. In many cases, the reprocessing of recycled materials is only a fraction of the cost of refining raw virgin materials. Many competitive and financially aggressive manufacturers are beginning to leverage the accurate visibility of the sustainable reverse logistics supply chain, not only to address regulatory issues, but also as a source of lowest cost materials for future production. Manufacturers that harness these sources of material with effective supply chains will be able to reduce production costs, increase profitability, and gain a strong financial competitive edge.

Helping Manufacturers Reduce Cost now, and identify sources of material for the future: To find out more about how Silvanus³⁶⁰ can contribute to the efforts and success of manufacturers to respond to regulations, maximize credits, establish a recycling network, and develop resources for the future, please click here