January

• A major E-waste initiative undertaken by E-bay known as Re-Think acknowledges the Electronic Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship and the BAN website. 15 new recyclers call immediately to join the pledge.
  
  
• BAN is called on to provide information on a new GAO investigation – this time on E-waste in the United States .
  

February

• BAN attends battleground joint IMO, ILO, Basel Convention meeting between at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London on shipbreaking. BAN releases with Greenpeace 3 press releases in the course of the difficult meeting and holds a press conference.
  
  
• BAN attends EPA Conference on E-waste and Cell Phone waste in Washington DC .
  
  
• Judge Collyer dismisses BAN/Sierra Club Lawsuit on technicalities. Despite disappointment, the environmentalists issue press release claiming victory as they achieved voluntary agreement from government on almost all aspects of case.
  
  
• BAN is featured on major Canadian Broadcasting Documentary Program "5th Estate" on Shipbreaking entitled: "The Big Break"

March

• BAN appears on NPR's To the Point and debates the Electronic Industry Alliance.
  
  
• BAN joins Greenpeace in press release denouncing Canada's failure to uphold their obligations under the Basel Convention with respect to a ship export from a Canadian port for breaking in India .

April

• Yuka Takamiya of BAN on behalf of BAN and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) attends the first Ministerial G-8 Summit on the 3Rs in Tokyo and holds press conference and NGO side event. BAN expresses concern over lack of NGO participation and the call for eliminating waste trade barriers.
  
  
• BAN release first ever, Basel Convention Non-Compliance Report against India (for ignoring the Basel Convention with respect to importation of the Danish ship "Riky" and the United States for pressing to exempt waste mobile phones from hazardous waste definitions.

May

• BAN joins international coalition to try and return the ship "Riky" to Denmark. Provides legal analysis of illegalities on the part of India in the case.
  
  
• BAN receives "Whistleblower Award" from the State of California for discovering a "recycler" that was stockpiling monitors rather than processing them in order to take advantage of California law.

July

• BAN attends the Open Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention. Raises questions regarding the IMO proposed Convention on Shipbreaking and issues definitive document describing “Equivalent Level of Control” and issues Report on IMO/ILO/Basel Joint meeting describing IMO efforts to manipulate the meeting. BAN participates in Mobile Phone Partnership Side Event.
  
  
• BAN joins Greenpeace and a coalition of NGOs calling for the first time that the global shipping industry boycott India and Bangladesh due to their lack of concern for improving their ship scrapping yards and in ignoring international law.
  
  
• BAN attends IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee Meeting on Ship Recycling. Demands that any new IMO treaty achieve equivalency to the Basel Convention as a minimum.
  

August

• BAN releases press release on implementation of Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive of the European Union warning against a “Tsunami” of Electronic Waste leaving they EU for developing countries unless diligent prosecution of export ban is implemented.
  
  
• BAN together with Twisp River Films, begins conducting field investigation and film in Lagos, Nigeria to be entitled "The Digital Dump". Discovers massive dumping of electronic waste exported from Europe and North America allegedly for “Re-use”.

September

• BAN and Twisp River Films completes the shooting and documentation for "The Digital Dump" in Lagos, Nigeria. Also visits the Basel Convention Regional Center at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

October

• Major Release -- BAN together with the Computer TakeBack Campaign, releases its report "The Digital Dump" exposing the fact that high-tech toxic trash is exported to Africa from Europe and USA creating a Digital Dump from Re-use and Repair Trade. Story is covered in New York Times and elsewhere.
  
  
• Major Release -- Major Release: BAN premiers its new film "The Digital Dump" at the E-Scrap Conference in Orlando, Florida to rave reviews.
  
  
• BAN, together with the Computer TakeBack Campaign holds first ever meeting of E-Stewards (recyclers that have signed the Pledge of True Stewardship. E-Stewards vow to press for an audited, certified version of Pledge to come out of the EPA hosted effort to create e-Cycling standards.

November

• BAN attends the first face to face meeting of Project 2.1 of the Mobile Phone Working Group in Dessau, Germany. Shows " The Digital Dump" to Basel delegates and German EPA. Presses for more diligent application of the Basel Convention for exports of electronic waste.
  
  
• BAN attends Francophone NGO Workshop on Waste held in Niamey, Niger. Shows translated version of The Digital Dump and makes presentation regarding concerns over electronic waste impacting Africa and the need for ratifying the Basel Convention and Basel Ban Amendment.
  
  
• BAN attends RECCON conference on electronics recycling in Morgantown West Virginia. Shows "The Digital Dump" and makes presentation on electronic waste and global environmental justice.
  
  
• BAN attends Basel Convention workshop in Tokyo entitled "Asia-Pacific Regional Scoping Workshop on the Environmentally Sound Management of Electronic Wastes". Shows the film "The Digital Dump", presses for implementation of the Basel Ban particularly in Asia for e-waste.
  
  
• Story appears in Nation Magazine entitled "The e-Cycling Nightmare," features BAN and its reports from Africa and China.

December

• Major Story featuring BAN and the Digital Dump story appears in the Washington Post.
  
  
• BAN attends the First International Workshop: North-South dialogue on computer recycling and refurbishing projects, to be held in Santiago, Chile. Shows "The Digital Dump" to an enthusiastic reception.
  
  
• BAN, with Greenpeace Hong Kong provides legal analysis to the Legislative Committee of Hong Kong on the failings of the Hong Kong waste trade legislation to properly implement the Basel Convention.
  
  
• BAN receives word that the Clemenceau, a defunct French aircraft carrier is cleared for export by the courts of France using a “Material of War” defense. BAN prepares legal analysis refuting this court decision.