January

• BAN attends Waste Not Asia meeting of Asian NGOs in Kerala, India. Shows both E-waste films, and is featured as keynoter on the Japanese Free Trade Agreement menace.
  
  
• BAN attends special meeting in Colorado to educate school systems there on electronic waste disposition.
  
  
• BAN with Junk JPEPA Coalition in Philippines stage a demonstration at Senate.
  
  
• BAN Sends out Press Release warning that the launch of Vista will create a Tsunami of electronic waste on the shores of developing countries. Release was covered in world press and precipitated a meeting with Microsoft.

February

• BAN, together with GAIA issues press release showing the intent of Japan to sign a bilateral agreement with India liberalizing trade in wastes.
  
  
• BAN together with Japanese and other Asian NGOs issues a press release decrying Japan’s twisting the arms of Asian neighbors to take their hazardous waste. The release provided new evidence of Japan’s intent to undermine Basel Convention.

March

• BAN issues press release denouncing global StEP program refusal to condemn exports of electronic wastes to developing countries and for their lack of inclusion and transparency.
  
  
• BAN serves Japan with Basel non-Compliance Notification for their intended use of bilateral free trade agreements to undermine the Basel Convention.
  
  
• Excellent article appears in New Republic Magazine featuring many of BAN’s recent press releases, entitled Data Dump.
  
  
• BAN attends Take it Back conference in Washington DC. Speaks and shows film "The Digital Dump".

April

• BAN Asia Pacific together with a coalition of Asian groups issued a press release revealing the large number of Philippine Senatorial Candidates that called for a rejection of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, and in support of ratification of the Ban Amendment.
  
  
• BAN and a coalition of American groups responded in a press release to the Apple Corporation’s denunciation of two stockholders resolutions calling on Apple to design greener products and take full responsibility for not exporting their hazardous electronic waste.
  
  
• BAN helps organize Japanese environmental groups to denounce the JTEPA (Thai-Japanese economic agreement) in the Japanese press due to its waste trade liberalization obligations.

May

• BAN Asia Pacific staged a major protest and media event in front of the Japanese embassy in Manila in a mock theatrical display of the Iwo Jima flag raising the symbol of the Japanese Yen over a pile of toxic waste and Asian developing country victims.
  
  
• BAN’s Richard Gutierrez and Yuka Takamiya visit the Asia Development Bank meeting in Tokyo and conduct a well attended workshop on the Japanese Economic Partnership Agreements (JEPAs) and their anti-Basel Convention waste trade liberalization intent. BAN meets bank trustees and lodges its concerns regarding the 3Rs program and the JEPAs.
  
  
• Victory! -- The contract between the US Maritime Administration and the UK shipbreakers to receive 9 more ships stopped earlier by a BAN/Sierra Club/Earthjustice lawsuit was finally scrapped. BAN called it a victory for domestic recyclers, jobs and the environment.
  
  
• BAN’s attends Good Electronics Roundtable in Bangkok, presents on export of electronic waste.
  
  
• BAN attends UNEP working group on Mercury in Bangkok.
  
  
• BAN attends Asia-Pacific SAICM Regional Workshop in Bangkok.
  
  
• BAN attends Kemi-Asia Chemical Issues meeting.
  
  
• BAN attends meeting organized by EPA for final negotiations over the Best Management Practices for Electronic Waste recyclers in the United States. BAN continues to press for controls on export.

June

• BAN attends first meeting of the Partnership for Action on Computer Equipment (named by BAN) – a multistakeholder partnership program of the Basel Convention.
  
  
• BAN featured in Le Monde newspaper.
  
  
• BAN warns that Ghost Fleet ships are currently leaching heavy metal contamination following a study in Suisun Bay, California. BAN calls for immediate recycling.
  
  
• BAN signs distribution agreement for its films in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries and in the UK for educational market.
  
  
• BAN submits comments on the changes in the solid waste rules of the US, calling for compliance with the Basel Convention even prior to ratification.

July

• BAN attends the Marine Environmental Protection Committee Shipbreaking working group meeting in London.
  


• BAN issues warning regarding the sale of two warships by Chile to shipbrokers. Calls on Chile to have the ships broken in the UK or US.
  


• Major Release! -- BAN and Professor Weidenhamer of Ashland University release their findings that the source of lead in contaminated imported charm jewelry from China is likely to be electronic waste. Story runs in Wall Street Journal but fails to credit BAN.
  


• BAN learns it has succeeded in getting a US Congress GAO study launched on electronic waste exportation.
  


• Victory! -- The European Union Correspondent’s Group passes their Guidelines Number 1 distinguishing Waste from non-Waste electronics. This document is a direct result of BAN’s film "The Digital Dump" which exposed the loophole of exports under the guise of reuse.

August

• Major Victory! -- The vessel Otapan, the subject of a concerted campaign over many years by the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, has been refused one last time by Turkey, prompting the Dutch government to announce that it will be scrapped in the Netherlands.
  


• BAN invited for a special film showing of "Exporting Harm" and " The Digital Dump" in British Colombia, hosted by Free Geek Vancouver.
  


• Major News Story featuring BAN and e-Waste appears in Dutch Newspaper Volkskrant.

September

• BAN attends the Partnership on Action on Computer Equipment (PACE) in Geneva. BAN presses for social responsibility to be in the plank as well as action on Green Design.
  


• BAN attends the 6th Open-Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention in Geneva. Richard Gutierrez of BAN-AP, conducts Side Event on Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements.
  


• BAN hires researcher/writer to work on US Shipbreaking.
  


• BAN issues press release in Washington State, warning the Governor that the e-Waste bill will likely have the counter-productive effect of collecting more e-waste that will then be sent off-shore to Asia.
  


• BAN together with the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, issue press release denouncing India Supreme Court Decision to allow breaking of the ocean liner, SS Norway (aka Blue Lady).

October

• BAN’s film "The Digital Dump" is chosen from hundreds of entries to be shown as part of the United Nation’s Film Festival. BAN’s Jim Puckett attends and speaks at public screening at Stanford University.
  


• BAN’s Yuka Takamiya and Japanese activist Takeshi Yasuma in Tokyo complete Japanese version of the film "Exporting Harm".
  


• BAN attends and exhibits at the 2007 e-Scrap conference in Atlanta. Our booth promoting e-Stewards attracts hundreds of participants.
  


• BAN holds e-Stewards coordinating/updating meeting at the Atlanta, Conference with leading recyclers.

November

• Victory! -- BAN film "The Digital Dump" shown to the cabinet and President (head of state) of Nigeria with great impact. Nigeria immediately imposes high duties on e-waste.
  


• BAN submits a comprehensive review and critique of India’s draft new Hazardous Waste law. This is provided to NGOs and the Indian government.
  


• BAN alerts first EPA and then the Baltimore Sun about impending export of PCB laden ex-Naval hospital ship M/V Sanctuary’s likely export for shipbreaking in likely violation of US law. Story makes front page of Baltimore Sun.
  


• BAN featured on NPR: Marketplace story including the story on our e-Waste coming back to haunt us in the form of imported charm jewelry from China – story which BAN first broke with Professor Weidenhamer from Ashland University.
  


• Two major global Associated Press stories released with pick up from CNN, Fox, International Herald Tribune, Melbourne Herald Post, China Post etc. features BAN.
  


• Victory! -- BAN stops export of another US ship. Following BAN tip and subsequent EPA action the Federal court in Baltimore granted both a temporary restraining order and Preliminary Injunction, effectively barring the export of PCB laden M/V Sanctuary.

December

• Major Release! -- BAN is featured and applauded in a National Geographic article "High-Tech Trash", released in December for it January issue.