Top Recycler in Tucson Receives OHSAS 18001 Certification

ROSEVILLE, CA, December 22, 2010

Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler is pleased to announce that their facility in Tucson, AZ has become the seventh Sims Recycling Solutions facility in North America to achieve OHSAS 18001 certification.

OHSAS 18001 is an international occupational health and safety management system standard to enable an organization to control its health and safety risks and improve its performance. OHSAS 18001 certification is the result of an audited-verification of the organization's management system to achieve those goals.

"We are proud of our latest OHSAS certification" said Bill Vasquez, GM Western Region. "It reaffirms Sims' commitment to a safe and healthy working environment"

The OHSAS 18001 certification isn't the only certification or management system in place in the Sims Recycling Solutions facilities. To review some of the Environmental Management Standards please visit, http://us.simsrecycling.com/key-issues/environmental-responsibility/environmental-standards. Sims was recognized in the April 12, 2010 issue of "Inside Tucson Business" (A business journal publication) as the Top Recycling Firm in the Tucson area.

Sims Recycling Solutions

Sims Recycling Solutions (www.us.simsrecycling.com) is the world's largest electrical and electronics recovery and recycling company with 38 sites across the globe.

Sims Recycling Solutions recycles all types of electronic equipment and enables businesses to meet both their social and legal obligations in the treatment of surplus electronics. The company's asset management and recovery service enables businesses and public sector organizations to sustain the value of IT and electronic equipment, in a legally compliant, data secure, fully traceable and environmentally sustainable manner.

In North America, Sims Recycling Solutions operates 12 sites in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, Ontario, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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