Industry response to BAN export report

[Jim Lynch]

In case you hadn't seen it, PBS News Hour ran a 15 minute segment on Basel Action Network's new expose on foreign e-waste dumping this past week called Where does America’s e-waste end up? It's part of BAN's project called the e-Trash Transparency Project.

BAN worked with MIT to put 200 geolocating tracking devices inside old computers, TVs and printers and then dropped them off nationwide at donation centers, most notably ones in the Dell/Goodwill Reconnect program. They found that a number of the devices ended up in informal recycling facilities in Hong Kong. The story got some big attention and will probably be the biggest electronics recycling story this year.

This morning E-Scrap News came out with an industry response piece to the BAN export report, which unpacks some of the details of the method and findings. Most interesting. If you haven't seen it yet, find it at:
http://resource-recycling.com/node/7409

-jim

[Nancy Jo Craig]

And for another viewpoint is retroworks.blogspot.com 

There is a lot of backstory to this. 

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