Tuesday, May 21, 2013 No Comments
By Ben Richmond, writer at Motherboard.vice.com E-waste remains a heaping problem. Just last week the New York Times reported, “Americans replace their cellphones every 22 months, junking some 150 million old phones in 2010 alone.” And if everyone I know has at least one superfluous cell phone in a drawer or closet, picture the stashes big companies [...]
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Friday, May 10, 2013 No Comments
Key staff members from the Basel Action Network returned from the Basel Convention meetings in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday. Attending a full week of meetings, BAN staff worked on finalizing the ‘Technical Guideline’ for the import and export of e-waste. The Technical Guideline is meant to clarify when used electronic equipment is considered e-waste, and when [...]
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Monday, May 6, 2013 No Comments
Much is at stake this week. There are two potential headlines that will be at the top of environmental news on Tuesday, May 6th. One could read as: Basel Convention Removes e-Wastes from Waste Definitions. But the other might read: Basel Convention Moves to Prevent Global e-Waste Dumping. Which of these do we want? Which of [...]
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Friday, May 3, 2013 No Comments
Representatives from the Basel Action Network are currently attending the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP-11) in Geneva, Switzerland. This series of meetings will be held back to back from April 28th to May 10th, 2013 and serve to further the goals set out in the original Basel [...]
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 No Comments
When a business or individual measures their overall environmental impact, many factors are considered. The carbon emitted, the waste water generated, the garbage created and the energy consumed are the most commonly accepted measurement tools, called metrics. But BizNGO and their affiliates want to add one more metric to the toolbox: the chemicals used to make the [...]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 No Comments
From the New York Times, by Ian Urbina: Last year, two inspectors from California’s hazardous waste agency were visiting an electronics recycling company near Fresno for a routine review of paperwork when they came across a warehouse the size of a football field, packed with tens of thousands of old computer monitors and televisions. The [...]
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Friday, March 1, 2013 No Comments
LYON, France – The first INTERPOL operation targeting the illegal trade of electronic waste saw the seizure of more than 240 tonnes of electronic equipment and electrical goods and the launch of criminal investigations against some 40 companies involved in all aspects of the illicit trade. Held in November and December 2012, Operation Enigma saw [...]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 No Comments
From Boston.com, by Melissa Masselo: If this winter has your kids climbing the walls and you’re looking to direct their energy into more creative pursuits, send them over to the Arts at the Armory in Somerville this week, where they’ll learn to design various art projects from discarded computer parts and other e-waste in daily “Hacker [...]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 No Comments
From The Guardian, by John Vidal. Europe’s plan to overturn a ban on contaminated ships being broken up in developing countries may be illegal, according to the European Union‘s own lawyers. Leaked European council legal opinion papers seen by the Guardian express grave concerns over the European commission’s attempts to exempt ships from the Basel convention, the [...]
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 No Comments
Federal legislation that would restrict exports of electronic waste from the U.S. to developing countrie could create as many as 42,000 direct and indirect new jobs with a total payroll of more than $1 billion, according to a new study commissioned by the Coalition For American Electronics Recycling (CAER). “This study shows that if Congress takes [...]
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