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NAVY ABANDONS PLAN TO SINK SENATOR
McCAIN’S OLD AIRCRAFT CARRIER
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Environmentalists Claim a Victory for Green Jobs and Safe Ship Recycling
7 April 2011 (Seattle) - The Basel Action Network, a global toxic trade
watchdog organization, claimed victory today as the U.S. Navy confirmed it had changed
its decision to scuttle the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL, choosing instead to
have the ship recycled here in the United States. This change followed the December
2010 release of BANÂ’s report
“Jobs and Dollars Overboard: The Economic Case Against Dumping U.S. Naval Vessels
at Sea.” BAN estimates that the recycling of the FORRESTAL will save millions
of taxpayer dollars, create approximately 500 green jobs in the domestic recycling
industry, and create about 1,900 jobs in the overall economy for one year.
Read the Media Release
- 4-7-11
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Electronics Recycling Industry Leaders
Call on the Federal Government to Stop Exporting its own E-Waste
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17 March 2011 (Chicago) - Thirty leading electronics recyclers meeting
this week in
Chicago called on the federal government to lead by example and ensure that the
old computers, printers, phones and other electronics from all federal agencies
are not sold or auctioned to brokers that will then simply export the e-waste to
developing countries where it is most often dismantled, cracked and burned in substandard,
harmful conditions. The meeting drew together
e-Stewards Recyclers that have agreed to become certified to the e-Stewards Standard
(www.e-stewards.org) for
responsible recycling.
Read the Media Release
- 3-17-11
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EPA ALLOWS SCHEME TO DUMP U.S. FLAGGED
SHIP ON SOUTH ASIAN BEACH
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“Stonewalls” on releasing internal documents
10 March 2011 (India) - According to the U.S. Maritime Administration,
a U.S. flagged tanker named “Prince William Sound,” owned in part by
a BP subsidiary, has been given clearance by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to be sold, knowing it would be beached on the infamous scrapping beaches
at Alang, India. Meanwhile EPA has refused after repeated requests to deliver to
BAN any particulars as to why the clearance was given.
Read the Media Release
- 3-10-11
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Alcoa Leads the Way in Responsible
e-Waste Recycling -- Earns e-Stewards Enterprise Designation
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7 March 2011 (Seattle, WA) -
The Basel Action Network (BAN) announced today that Alcoa has become an e-Stewards®
Enterprise, recognition for the company’s commitment to responsible recycling
practices for its electronic waste (e-waste) in North America and advocating the
responsible disposal of
e-waste everywhere. The distinction is granted to companies that agree to always
make best efforts to use only e-Stewards® Electronics Recyclers.
Read the Media Release
- 3-7-11
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Environmental Group Re-Files Legal
Complaint to Protect
e-Waste Certification Program from Unfair Trademark Competition
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Phrase “Certified Electronics Recycler” must not be exclusive
23 January 2011 (Seattle, Washington) - The environmental watchdog group
Basel Action Network (BAN), known for its work exposing the international dumping
of US e-waste on developing countries and creating the e-Stewards® Certification
program for responsible e-waste recyclers, has filed an amended complaint in the
Federal District Court of Western Washington in Seattle. The complaint asserts that
the use of the trademark “certified electronics recycler” is inappropriate
and harms BAN and the recyclers in the e-Stewards® Certification program.
Read the Media Release
- 1-23-11
Amended complaint and supporting
documents filed with the court on January 13, 2011
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Provocative New Film “The Story
of Electronics” Released
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BP’s SCHEME TO DUMP TOXIC SHIP
ON SOUTH ASIAN SCRAPPING BEACH UNDER SCRUTINY BY U.S. OFFICIALS
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28 October 2010 (Seattle, USA.) - According to the toxic watchdog organization
Basel Action Network (BAN), a U.S. flagged oil tanker named "Prince William
Sound”, that is part owned by BP and formerly was used to haul BP oil, is
about to be sold for scrapping on the notorious shipbreaking beaches in South Asia.
The ship, built in 1975 and whose namesake and owner are all too familiar reminders
of recent environmental disasters, is likely to contain toxic wastes such as asbestos,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances, and as such poses
a threat to workers and the environment should it be exported to a developing country.
Read the Media Release
- 10-28-10
National Guidance: Best Management Practices for Preparing Vessels
Intended to Create Artificial Reefs
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAUGHT EXPORTING
TOXIC E-WASTE
TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND CONTAMINATING WORKERS
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SCATHING REPORT ON FEDERAL PRISON
E-WASTE RECYCLING JUSTIFIES
E-STEWARDS® CERTIFICATION
22 October 2010 (Washington DC, USA.) - Following the release of an investigation
by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General revealing that federal prisons
(operating under the trade name UNICOR) routinely exposed inmates to toxic heavy
metals and exported hazardous wastes to developing countries, the Basel Action Network
(BAN) calls for consumers large and small to only use e-Stewards® qualified
recyclers that will not export hazardous wastes to developing countries and will
not utilize prisoner labor for managing it.
Read the Media Release
- 10-22-10
Read the
Department of Justice Report
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MEXICO WARNED TO BLOCK ILLEGAL EXPORT
OF TOXIC SHIPS
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20 October 2010 (Mexico) - The Basel Action Network (BAN), a toxic trade
watchdog and member organization of the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, warned the
Government of Mexico in a letter released today, that they have learned from sources
in Mexico that three Mexican flagged tankers called the Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada,
Tolteca, and Independencia, all owned and operated by Petróleos Mexicanos
(Pemex), Mexico’s state-owned oil company, may very soon be exported from
Mexico to shipbreaking yards in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India or China in contravention
to the United Nations Basel Convention and Mexican law.
Read the Media Release
- 10-20-10
ADVIERTEN A MÉXICO QUE
DEBE BLOQUEAR LA EXPORTACIÓN ILEGAL DE NAVÍOS TÓXICOS
NGO Platform on Shipbreaking Letter
to Mexico
Sources in Mexico
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California’s Santa Clara County
Commits to Highest Standard of Responsible E-Waste Recycling
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"Silicon Valley" Government Becomes First in Nation to Join e-Stewards®
Initiative
14 October 2010 (Santa Clara, CA.) - Leading environmental and community
organizations* working to promote responsible electronic waste management today
applauded the County of Santa Clara’s decision to become an “e-Stewards
Enterprise,” committing themselves to utilizing e-Stewards®
certified electronics recyclers that meet the highest standard of responsible electronics
waste recycling. The county, frequently referred to as “Silicon Valley,”
for its status as a global hub of the high-tech industry, is the first in the nation
to do so.
Read the Media Release
- 10-14-10
Santa Clara County Decision (see item 17)
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Federal Legislation on E-Waste
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Congress introduces bill to stop the global dumping of e-waste
1 October 2010 - On Sept 29, 2010, Reps. Gene Green and Mike Thompson introduced
a bill in Congress to make it illegal for U.S. "recyclers" to send toxic
e-waste to developing nations.
Read the Press Release
- 10-1-10
Click here to read H.R. 6252
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e-Stewards® Leadership Council
Announced
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Diverse New Advisory Body to Guide Responsible e-Recycling
17 September 2010 (Seattle, WA) - The Certified
e-Stewards® Initiative, the world's first third-party audited, accredited
international certification program for electronics recyclers that prohibits the
export of e-waste to developing countries and enjoys the support of more than 70
environmental organizations, today announced its first Leadership Council.
Read the Media Release
- 9-17-10
2010 e-Stewards Leadership Council
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Environmentalists and Consumer Groups
Applaud HPÂ’s Policy on E-Waste Export
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12 February 2010 (San Francisco, CA) -
Environmentalists and consumer groups applauded Hewlett Packard (HP) for its announcement
today of a policy that prohibits the export of toxic electronic waste from developed
countries, like the U.S., to any developing country.
Read the Media
Release - 2-12-10
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Holiday e-Waste? Beware Fake Recyclers!
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Old TVs and Computers are Likely to be Dumped in Developing Countries
28 December 2009 (Seattle, Washington) -
For those of you that got that new flat screen TV as a holiday gift and are wondering
what to do with that old cathode ray tube dinosaur now parked in the garage, the
Basel Action Network (BAN), a global toxic-trade watchdog organization, warns that
old electronics are hazardous and should not be handed over to just any company
calling itself a recycler.
Read the Media
Release - 12-28-09
For photographs of electronic wastes dumped in Africa and China, see
the BAN Photo Gallery.
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INDIAN GOVERNMENT BLOCKS TOXIC US
SHIP
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Forged Ship Registration Documents Confirmed as Environmentalists Claim Victory
9 November 2009 (Seattle, WA) - Following the discovery by the Basel Action
Network (BAN) that the national registry and flag had been falsified, the Indian
government yesterday ruled against allowing an aged American cruise liner from being
beached on the infamous shipbreaking beaches of Alang, India.
Read the
Media Release - 11-9-09
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News Stories:
Gujarat maritime
board to probe toxic US ship's ownership - 11-10-09
India
bars entry of former S.S. Independence - 11-10-09
'Toxic' US ship banned
in India - 11-10-09
Central team
to inspect Platinum-II near Alang - 10-19-09
Toxic’
ship owner raises crack scare - Gov't to inspect vessel - 10-19-09
MoEF seeks details
of ship in Alang from Guj authorities - 10-13-09
Toxic Ship
Firm Fined $500k for Illegal Sale of Deadly PCBs - 1-30-09
Md. firms fined $518,000 in shipbreaking
case - 1-29-09
Toxic Ship Dealer
Caught, Fined for Export of PCBs - 1-29-09
The problem with
ship scrapyards isn't what you think - 6-12-08
Global Marketing Systems
responds to EPA investigation - 5-2-08
EPA alleges
Md. firm illegally exported toxic ship for recycling - 3-25-08
Independence
sails into a new set of problems - 3-21-08
Aged ships a toxic export
- 3-19-08
Ocean Liner's Final
Voyage to Asia under Scrutiny - 2-29-08
Last U.S. ocean liner heads into
the unknown - 2-9-08
BAN Media Releases:
TOXIC U.S. SHIP LANDS
IN INDIA - 10-22-09
Victory Declared as Major Toxic
Ship Exporter Forced to Pay Penalties by EPA
- 1-29-09
EPA Sues US Ship
Broker for Illegal Export but Allows 'Toxic Timebomb' to Sail Away - 3-20-08
Fugitive Toxic
Ocean Liner Now Believed to be Nearing Guam – Mariners are Asked to Report
Whereabouts and to Avoid Selling Ship Fuel - 3-6-08
EPA called on to Stop Illegal
Departure of Toxic Ocean Liner – Historic SS Independence loaded with PCBs
and asbestos to be scrapped - 2-20-08
Environmentalists Denounce Illegal
Departure of Toxic Ship from San Francisco –
SS Independence with PCBs and Asbestos Slipped Away in the Fog - 2-12-08
EPA Press Release and Settlement - 1-29-09
U.S. EPA - In the Matter of: Global
Shipping, LLC, and Global Marketing Systems, Inc. - Consent Agreement and Final
Order - U.S. EPA / Docket No. TSCA-09-2008-0003 / Filed 28/01/2009
Global Marketing Systems, Inc.
Answer to EPA Complaint - 4-30-08
Global Shipping LLC Answer to EPA
Complaint - 4-30-08
EPA Press Release:
U.S.
EPA files complaint against ship brokers for violations of Toxic Substances Control
Act - 3-18-08
EPA Complaint:
www.ban.org/library/Oceanic_complaint.pdf
EPA Cover Letter:
www.ban.org/library/Oceanic_cover letter.pdf
Waste Stream
Analysis for SS Independence, conducted by ship remediation expert Mr. Werner F.
Hoyt - 2-14-08
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LATEST BAN RATIFICATIONS
Congratulations Chile and Kenya
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Sinking of John McCain's Old Aircraft
Carrier Denounced
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NavyÂ’s Plan to Dump "USS Forrestal" Instead of Recycling Called "Irresponsible"
27 July 2009 (Seattle) - The toxic waste watchdog organization Basel Action
Network (BAN) today slammed the government’s plans to scuttle the former aircraft
carrier FORRESTAL in deep water as an “artificial reef” instead of having
the ship safely recycled at one of the half-dozen active ship dismantling yards
in the U.S.
Read the
Media Release - 7-27-09
BAN Submission:
FORRESTAL Class Aircraft Carrier
Scrapping and Dismantling Request for Information- 7-27-09
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PBS Frontline features BAN and e-Stewards in
"Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground" – Watch the Video
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Stop Dumping Techno-Trash on Developing
Countries!
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Activists Urge Consumers, Manufacturers
and Retailers to Use Only Ethical "e-Steward" Recyclers
24 June 2009 (Seattle) - The Basel Action Network (BAN), a leading global
advocate for responsible toxic management practices, today called on consumers,
manufacturers and retailers of computers and electronics to make a commitment to
never allow their old e-waste to go to recyclers that will simply export it to developing
countries.
Read the Media
Release - 6-24-09
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EPA Files Legal Action against Exporter
of e-Waste Following Toxic Trade Watchdog Investigation
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Humane Society, Make-A-Wish Foundation warned that e-waste would be dumped in poor
nations, decided to move forward anyway
10 June 2009 (Seattle, WA.) - The Environmental Protection Agency filed
a legal Complaint and Compliance Order late last week against EarthEcycle, the electronic
waste handler for several charity e-waste collection events held in the Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania in recent days. The events include those run by two Humane Society
branches, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and Boy Scout Troop 30 will hold such a collection
event tomorrow.
Read the Media Release
- 6-10-09
EPA Legal Complaint:
U.S. EPA - In the Matter
of: EarthEcycle, LLC., - Complaint, Compliance Order and Notice of Opportunity for
Hearing - EPA Docket No. RCRA-HQ-2009-0001 / Filed 2009 Jun-5
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BAN Media Releases:
Fake Recycling
Events in Pittsburgh Uncovered - 5-26-09
EarthECycle’s
Statements to the Press Rebutted - 5-26-09
BAN & ETBC Research Report:
The EarthECycle Pittsburgh "Recycling"
Scam
News Stories:
E-waste lessons learned
- 10-15-09
Levin orders truck
to leave Monroeville warehouse lot without cargo - 9-19-09
Controversial
e-waste generates renewed complaints - 9-18-09
Stash
of controversial e-waste to be hauled - 6-24-09
Workers say
recycler dumped monitors - 6-12-09
EPA takes action against
electronics recycler - 6-11-09
EPA files complaint against
electronics recycling firm - 6-10-09
Electronic waste
recycler to empty Monroeville warehouse - 6-8-09
New doubts raised over electronics
recycling - 6-3-09
Toxic Fraud - 6-1-09
Few Rules for Recycling Electronics
- 5-31-09
Don't Be Duped by
E-Cycling Scams - 5-28-09
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BAN Colleague Rizwana Hasan Wins Goldman
Award for Courageous Work to End Unsustainable Shipbreaking
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Malaysia's Decision to Refuse CRT
Glass from the US
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3 April 2008 - Recently, the Malaysian government decided to no longer
accept any CRT glass from the United States, as of December 31, 2008. There appears
to be confusion about what role, if any, BAN played in this nation’s decision.
Here are the facts:
Read the Information
Bulletin - 4-3-09
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Waste Management Recycle America Commits
to e-Stewards Pledge: World's Most Rigorous Environmental and Social Criteria for
Electronic Waste Management
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First solid waste management company to commit to responsible e-waste handling and
environmental preservation
24 September 2008 - Waste Management Recycle America (WM Recycle America)
today announced its commitment to adopt the Electronics Recycler’s Pledge
of True Stewardship for the dismantling and recycling of electronics waste (e-waste).
Read the Press Release
- 9-24-08
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Environmental Victory for Proper Ship
Scrapping!
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Finally Decontaminated, the "Otapan" leaves Amsterdam for Turkey
16 May 2008 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Environmentalists toasted a major
victory today as the saga of the controversial ship Otapan finally appears to be
coming to a happy ending as it sailed Thursday night cleaned and decontaminated
from Amsterdam to the Turkish shipbreaking yards of Aliaga, Turkey near Izmir.
Read the Press
Release - 5-16-08
The Otapan Principles - 5-12-08
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Proposed waste law to officially turn
India into global waste destination: Environmentalists
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Environmentalists Applaud Sony Recycling
Announcement
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16 August 2007 (San Jose, CA) - Environmentalists today applauded Sony
USA's announcement that they are launching an electronics takeback program across
the United States next month. Sony has stated that they will take back any used
product with Sony's name on it, at no cost to consumers, and will eventually reach
a goal of recycling a pound of old electronics for every new pound of products sold.
Sony, which has the largest market share of television sales in the US, is the first
consumer electronics company to make such a commitment in this country.
Read the Press Release
- 8-16-07
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Research Identifies U.S. Electronic
Waste as Likely Source of Toxic Jewelry Imports from China
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11 July 2007 (Ashland, Ohio.) - For Dr. Jeffrey Weidenhamer, a professor
of chemistry at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, a trip to a local dollar store
to buy jewelry samples for his class to analyze, turned into a year-long research
project on the global trade in toxic products. The research, soon to be published
in two papers in the journal Chemosphere, identifies electronic solders
from electronic waste and old car batteries as likely sources for the lead that
has been recently discovered in trinket and charm jewelry samples imported from
China.
by Ashland University and Basel Action Network
Read the Press Release
- 7-11-07
Images ©2007 Stuart Isett/www.isett.com
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Additional Press:
Why Lead in Toy Paint? It's Cheaper
- 9-7-07
Toxic-waste jewellery may
be on sale in NZ - 8-8-07
Lead Toxins Take a Global
Round Trip - 7-12-07
Articles:
Chemosphere Article (gally proofs) available at www.ashland.edu/~jweiden
Weidenhamer, J.D., Clement, M.L.
“Leaded Electronic Waste is a Possible Source Material for Lead-Contaminated
Jewelry” Chemosphere (2007) doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.04.023
Weidenhamer, J.D., Clement, M.L.
“Evidence of Recycling Lead Battery Waste into Highly Leaded
Jewelry” Chemosphere (2007) doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.005
Basel Action Network "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia"
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Government of Chile Urged Not to Dump
Warships
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2 July 2007 (Brussels, Belgium.) - The NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, a
coalition of human rights and environmental groups working to prevent environmentally
damaging and exploitive shiprecycling, has discovered that two decommissioned Chilean
frigates (former UK navy vessels) named the Almirante Cochrane (formerly the HMS
Antrim) and the Capitan Prat (formerly the HMS Norfolk) are soon to be sold on the
international ship scrap market.
Read the Press
Release - 7-2-07
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Study Reveals Ghost Fleet to be Constantly
Discharging Toxins
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19 June 2007 (Seattle, WA.) - In an article this Sunday, the California
newspaper Contra Costa Times revealed that the "ghost fleet" ships have lost 25%
of their toxic paints and that high levels of toxic heavy metal contamination of
the waters and sediments have accumulated beneath and near the Suisun Bay ex-naval
ship "parking lot" in Northern California.
Read the Press Release
- 6-19-07
Click here to view the study (33MB)
Photo by Karl Mondon (Contra Costa Times)
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Toxic Ghost Fleet Ship Export to UK
Stopped
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31 May 2007 (Seattle, WA., Washington, DC) - The Bush Administration's
plans to export nine ex-naval “Ghost Fleet” vessels from the James River
in Virginia to Teesside, England for scrapping has itself been finally scrapped,
according to the Able UK company.
Read the Press Release
- 5-31-07
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Additional Press:
Revised deal ends one of fights over
ghost fleet - 6-2-07
No more 'ghost fleet' ships
to be sent to England for scrapping - 6-1-07
No more 'ghost fleet' ships
will be sent to Britain for scrapping - 6-1-07
British firm loses contract
to dismantle nine US 'ghost ships - 5-31-07
Export of Toxic Ghost Ships
to UK Ended - 5-31-07
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Asia-Pacific Cautions Against Waste
Dumping Through
Trade Pacts
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24 May 2007 (Bangkok, Thailand) - Asia-Pacific countries yesterday stated
that developing countries should not become dumping grounds for hazardous wastes,
and that trade agreements in particular should not be used in such a way as to undermine
existing environmental treaties, such as the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes.
Read the Press Release
- 5-24-07
Photo by Gigie Cruz (GAIA)
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Coalition Press Release:
Citizen Groups Flag 3R Initiative
Concerns to ADB - 5-7-07
Asian Groups Slam Japan's Waste
Colonialism- 5-2-07
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Greens react to Steve Job's Statement
on Apple's Environmental Commitments
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2 May 2007 (Cupertino) - Just a week before Apple's annual meeting - where
shareholders will vote on two shareholder-sponsored resolutions pushing Apple to
do better on e-waste recycling and green product design - Steve Jobs issued a statement
today about Apple's environmental record and future plans.
Read the Press
Release - 5-2-07
Image ©2007 Stuart Isett/www.isett.com
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Unheard Voices of Alang Workers &
their Families:
Blue Lady does not profit the people & should be recalled
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15 March 2007 (Delhi) - The updated version of the report entitled "End
of Life Ships - the human cost of breaking ships" was released today in Hindi
(Majdhar Me Jeevan) by the Platform on Shipbreaking, a global coalition of environmental,
human and labour rights organisations.
Click here to read the press release
- 3-15-07
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BAN Statement on StEP Program's Lack
of Transparency and Refusal to Denounce E-Waste Trafficking
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NO TOXICS! IN INDIA-JAPAN TRADE
PACT:
Demand Elimination of "Toxic" Elements
in the Agreement
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February 19, 2007 (New Delhi, Tokyo, Manila) - Environmental, public health,
human rights, economic justice, and farmer groups from around the world collectively
submitted before Japanese and Indian foreign affairs and environmental officials
a letter demanding, among others, the exclusion of toxic technologies and internationally
controlled or banned wastes and substances from the negotiations on the new India-Japan
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), whose negotiations began last
Feb. 1, 2007.
Click here to read the press
release - 2-19-07
Additional Press:
No tax breaks for toxics urge NGOs
- 2-22-07
Free Trade Cannot Include Toxic Waste
- 2-16-07
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Welcome. This is the Internet home of the Basel Action Network
(BAN),
a non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to prevent the globalization
of the toxic chemical crisis. BAN is a tax exempt charitable (IRS 501(c)3) organization
based in Seattle, Washington, USA.
BAN conducts both domestic (US) and international programs to halt toxic trade –
this ugly, costly and harmful trade moves toxic wastes, toxic products
and toxic technologies from rich to poorer developing countries. This trade
is bankrupt from both a moral and economic standpoint. Alternatively BAN's programs
point to another way forward – real development and economic progress, proactively
working in the United States and around the world, to shift to clean production
and national self-sufficiency in waste management and toxics use reductions. This
advances the principle of global environmental justice – where no peoples
or environments in the present or future are disproportionately poisoned and polluted
due to the dictates of unbridled market forces and trade in bads. We serve as a
campaigning organization, an investigative and research body, a political advocacy
group, and as the definitive clearing house for information on toxic trade. A quick
review of our activities on a month to month basis can be found in the
Highlights section.
The name Basel Action Network refers to an international treaty known as the
Basel Convention which was created in 1989 to ensure that waste would be
considered apart from the normal rules of free trade -- as a 'bad' instead of a
'good.' In 1994, a unique coalition of developing countries, environmental groups
and European countries succeeded in achieving within that Convention, the
Basel Ban – a decision to end the most abusive forms of hazardous
waste trade. In 1995, the Basel Ban was turned into a proposed amendment which when
ratified by the requisite number of Parties (see Deposit
Box) will enter into force and will become international law.
Unfortunately, very powerful governments and business organizations are still trying
to overturn, circumvent or undermine the full ratification and implementation of
the Basel Ban and in general seek to reverse the gains achieved by the Basel Convention
and instead reinstate a "free trade" in toxic wastes. The countries and
organizations that pose the greatest threat to the Basel Ban are listed in our Hall of Shame. Because the United States
is the only developed country in the world that fails to in any way, control or
prohibit toxic trade and has failed to ratify the Basel Convention and the Basel
Ban Amendment, our work in the United States is very important.
BAN works to counter the regressive efforts of these few countries and to instead
promote green and democratic design, sustainable consumption, economic progress
and environmental justice for all. In fulfillment of these goals, BAN seeks your
activist (Join Us) and economic support (Support
Us).
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