January

• Victory! -- China increases its enforcement pressure against imports of toxic electronic waste and announces new procedures that require all scrap importers to register or be prohibited from exporting to China. Willful violations by mixing e-waste into other loads will face de-registration.
  
  
• BAN gets opinion piece published in Waste Management World, January-February edition, on environmental justice, free trade and toxics.

February

• BAN undertakes another field investigation in Taizhou region of China, south of Shanghai. Finds a new and growing E-waste dumping area.
  
  
• BAN testifies in Olympia, Washington to ensure that state legislators fully comprehend the importance of controlling electronic waste exports.
  
  
• BAN attends special workshop in California on implementing the California E-waste bill, holds conference call with State officials on the export language and submits with Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, text for final revisions.

March

• BAN's Sarah Westervelt attends special EU sponsored workshop on WEEE Waste of Electronics and Electronic Equipment Workshop held in Skelleftea, Sweden and speaks to International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden.
  
  
• Participated in Nordic Council special meeting in Brussels to discuss what can be done to address European Mercury Stockpiles from the Chlor-Alkali industry.
  
  
• Participated in the European Commission Stakeholders Consultation meeting in Brussels on EU Mercury Strategy.
  
  
• Produces two educational posters on Poison TVs, Toxic PCs and Exporting Harm.
  
  
• BAN files a letter of intent to sue EPA and thus tips off the Region IX Environmental Protection Agency in California that a waste broker is readying to ship the USS Crescent City -- an ex Naval vessel full of PCBs and asbestos off from San Francisco Bay to China for scrap.

April

• BAN attends First Ever Meeting organized by NGOs in China on Electronic Waste. BAN together with Greenpeace China presents an Award to the Chinese Government for taking the lead in proposing the Basel Ban Amendment and then in being among the first countries in Asia to ratify the agreement. BAN also holds a press conference with Greenpeace China to release the most recent findings of a field investigation in Taizhou, China.
  
  
• BAN attends the preparatory meeting for the upcoming 7th Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention -- COP7. BAN successfully prevents a "takeover" of the shipbreaking issue by an "invasion" of shipping industry representatives at the meeting and was instrumental in ensuring that the questions of considering ships as waste is maintained and goes before the Ministers at COP7.
  
  
• Victory! -- BAN's film "Exporting Harm" is shown at the Clean-Med Conference and Kaiser Hospitals agree to use only our pledging electronics recycler "Redemtech" for the handling of their Electronic Waste!
  
  
• BAN releases short report on the fact that mobile phones are toxic and that the Basel Convention must be prepared to control their transboundary movement when they become wastes.

May

• Victory! -- Following BAN's tip to EPA, EPA finds PCBs and forbids export of USS Crescent City to China. Various options for decontaminating the ship or scrapping it domestically are being weighed.
  
  
• BAN publishes full critique of EPA's "Plug-In to E-cycling" electronic waste recycling guidelines and denounces and issues press release together with the Computer TakeBack Campaign organizations as being an affront to environmental justice as it continues to allow export of the material to developing countries and prison labor.

June

• BAN and Sierra Club present a motion for summary judgement to the court to finalize our lawsuit against EPA and the Maritime Administration for their proposal to export toxic waste ships in contravention of the Toxics Substances Control Act.
  
  
• BAN attends New York "e2e" meeting with various national delegations and representatives of all major computer manufacturers as the sole environmental NGO, to prepare a partnership to provide global solutions on electronic waste under the auspices of the Basel Convention.

July

• BAN joins in the call from the Waste Not Asia meeting in South Korea in a press release denouncing the international trade in electronic waste in Asia.

August

• BAN featured in major story on E-waste in Orion magazine “High-Tech Wasteland.

September

• Major story on electronic waste featuring BAN published in UK Guardian: “Poisonous Detritus of the Electronic Revolution”.

October

• BAN authors for the Computer TakeBack Campaign the critique of the G8 3Rs initiative which is an underhanded attack on the Basel Convention, calling instead for 4Rs to include Responsibility. Press release issued.
  
  
• BAN issues a stinging critique and press release on the EPA's plans to allow the dumping of toxic ships, still containing substantial amounts of PCBs as artificial reefs.
  
  
• BAN's Sarah Westervelt attends the E-Scrap Conference in Minneapolis , Minnesota.
  
  
• BAN's legal counsel, Earthjustice, testifies in Washington DC , Federal District Court in lawsuit to Challenge Bush Administration Plan to Scrap Toxic US warships in England claiming that PCB export is illegal.
  
  
• BAN attends the 7th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention. Release papers on “Shame of Shipping”, and “Running from Basel” as well as provide information regarding legal interpretations on entry into force of the Basel Ban Amendment.
  
  
• Victory! -- At COP7 the Basel Convention applies to ships is cleared up -- a decision is passed claiming that ships can be a waste and a ship at the same time, and call on all Parties to fulfill their Basel obligations with respect to ships including minimizing transboundary movements.

November

• BAN is featured speaker at a Forum on Export of E-waste held in Oakland , California , funded by EPA and sponsored by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
  
  
• BAN provides a major submission to the new Special Rapporteur on Toxic Waste with the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights.

December

• BAN is featured in a major new magazine -- "Cabinet".
  
  
• BAN moves to a new office in the Pioneer Square historical district of Seattle.
  
  
• BAN participates in “Louisville Charter” meeting in Seattle , a gathering of major toxics activists, to strategize next steps to reform chemical policy in the US .