How many R2v3 certified facilities are there?

As of August 2026, the SERI directory lists 1,252 facilities with active R2v3 certification across 43 countries. 789 of them — 63% — are in the United States, operated by 687 distinct companies.

Which US states have the most R2v3 certified facilities?

Texas leads by a wide margin with 137 active R2v3 facilities, followed by California (95), Florida (57), Georgia (45), and New York and Illinois (39 each). Together the top six states hold about half of all US facilities.

What are the R2v3 process appendices?

R2v3 certifies facilities to a core standard plus process appendices matching what the facility actually does: Appendix A (downstream recycling chain), B (data sanitization — logical and/or physical), C (test and repair), D (specialty electronics reuse), E (materials recovery), F (brokering), and G (photovoltaic modules). A facility's certificate lists exactly which appendices it holds.

Who certifies R2v3 facilities?

Independent certification bodies accredited under the R2 program perform the audits. In the US directory as of August 2026, Perry Johnson Registrars certifies 433 facilities (55%) and Amtivo 261 (33%) — an effective duopoly with 88% combined share. NSF (39), Intertek (24), Orion Registrar (17), and NSAI (15) hold the remainder.

Is R2v3 certification growing?

Yes. 238 of the 789 US facilities — 30% — earned their initial certification in 2024 or later, and 2024 was the largest single year in the directory with 106 new US facilities. 345 facilities (44%) have held certification since before 2020.

Research · Original Data

The State of R2v3 Certification, 2026

An original analysis of the public SERI R2 directory — every facility holding an active R2v3 certification worldwide, snapshotted August 2026. Free to cite with attribution.

Cite as: "The State of R2v3 Certification 2026," ItemStage/TetraCore analysis of the SERI R2 directory, August 2026. Link to this page.

1,252

facilities hold active R2v3 certification worldwide, in 43 countries

789

are in the United States — 63% of the global directory — across 687 companies

88%

of US facilities are certified by just two bodies: Perry Johnson (55%) and Amtivo (33%)

30%

of US facilities earned their first certification in 2024 or later

Geography

Where the world's R2v3 facilities are.

The US dominates the directory; the next nine countries combined hold less than half the US count.

Country	Active R2v3 facilities	Share
United States	789	63%
Canada	80	6.4%
China	78	6.2%
India	46	3.7%
Australia	32	2.6%
Japan	28	2.2%
Singapore	25	2.0%
United Arab Emirates	24	1.9%
Mexico	20	1.6%
South Korea	15	1.2%

US state (top 15)	Facilities
Texas	137
California	95
Florida	57
Georgia	45
New York	39
Illinois	39
Ohio	33
Arizona	29
New Jersey	27
Pennsylvania	25
Virginia	21
Massachusetts	20
Minnesota	20
North Carolina	17
Michigan	15

Texas alone holds 17% of US facilities — more than the bottom 35 states combined. The top six states (TX, CA, FL, GA, NY, IL) account for roughly half the national total.

Specializations

What US facilities are certified to do.

R2v3 attaches process appendices to each certificate. The distribution shows what the industry actually is: a downstream-managed, data-sanitizing, test-and-repair business.

Process appendix	US facilities	Share	Reading
Appendix A — Downstream Recycling Chain	763	97%	Near-universal: managing downstream vendors is effectively the baseline of R2v3.
Appendix C — Test & Repair	634	80%	Four in five US facilities are certified to test and repair for reuse.
Appendix B — Logical Sanitization	601	76%	Software-based data erasure under a documented, verified process.
Appendix B — Physical Sanitization	388	49%	Shredding, degaussing, and other physical destruction.
Appendix E — Materials Recovery	327	41%	Mechanical processing and commodity recovery.
Appendix F — Brokering	73	9%	Buying and selling equipment without physical possession.
Appendix G — PV Modules	28	4%	Solar panel processing — small today, growing with the first big decommissioning wave.
Appendix D — Specialty Electronics Reuse	23	3%	The rarest specialization in the US directory.

The core of the industry is the B + C combination: 609 US facilities — 77% — hold both a data-sanitization appendix (B) and Test & Repair (C). These are the operations that take in used IT assets, sanitize the data, and process the hardware for reuse: the classic ITAD profile. Serial-level tracking with documented evidence at every step is what those two appendices require an auditor to see.

Market structure

Two certification bodies audit almost everyone.

Certification body (US)	Facilities	Share
Perry Johnson Registrars	433	55%
Amtivo	261	33%
NSF	39	5%
Intertek	24	3%
Orion Registrar	17	2%
NSAI	15	2%

The certification-audit market behind R2v3 is a near-duopoly: Perry Johnson Registrars and Amtivo together certify 88% of US facilities. The pattern holds worldwide — the same two bodies lead globally with 582 and 465 facilities respectively.

For a facility, the practical consequence is that audit expectations are fairly standardized: most operators are being audited to the interpretations of one of two firms, and what those auditors ask to see — serial-level custody records, sanitization evidence, downstream due-diligence files — is well established.

Momentum

A standard in its growth phase.

Initial-certification dates in the US directory, by year.

345

US facilities certified before 2020 — the long-tenured core (44%)

106

new US facilities in 2024 alone — the biggest year in the directory

114

US certificates reach their expiration date within the next 12 months

The growth curve matters for anyone selling into, buying from, or auditing this industry: nearly a third of the US certified base is new to R2v3 since 2024. New certificate holders are building their evidence processes now — and every facility, new or tenured, faces annual surveillance audits and a full recertification every three years.

Method & notes

Methodology

Source: the public SERI R2 directory, exported August 2026. We counted facilities (a company can hold several per-facility certificates), kept only records marked Active, and tabulated country, state, process appendices, certification body, and initial-certification / expiration dates as published. "US companies" deduplicates by listed company name. Percentages are of the 789 US facilities unless stated otherwise.

Figures describe the directory at the snapshot date; SERI updates it continuously. R2v3 is a standard of SERI (Sustainable Electronics Recycling International); ItemStage is not affiliated with or endorsed by SERI. Corrections: contact us.

Changelog: v1.0, published August 2026, from the August 2026 directory snapshot.

We built this dataset because we work with these facilities.

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