Electronic Waste

EU Withdraws its Toxic Recycling Exemption

IPEN and Arnika Press Release

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Environmental Health Groups Celebrate the End to EU Allowance for Banned Flame Retardant Chemicals to Enter Recycling Streams & New Products

Gothenburg, Sweden The European Union (EU) has taken an important step towards cleaning up its recycling; it will no longer allow materials containing a class of toxic, globally banned flame retardants known as PBDEs to be recycled. Researchers had revealed that across Europe, alarming levels of toxic banned flame retardants and related chemicals, which originated largely from discarded electronics equipment, were contaminating the recycling stream and new consumer goods made from recycled plastics. Environmental health advocates applaud the EU’s decision and encourage the six remaining countries with PBDE recycling exemptions to follow suit.

Basel Convention

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

Wednesday, 8 January 2020 - 9:15am

On the 5th of December 2019, the Basel Ban Amendment became international law. The Ban Amendment, adopted by the parties to the Basel Convention in 1995, prohibits the export of hazardous wastes from member states of the European Union, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Liechtenstein to all other countries.

IPEN & BAN have produced a Basel Ban Amendment Guide, covering the implications and next steps for countries, public interest groups, and other stakeholders with the common goal to stop international hazardous waste dumping.

Document:

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-en.pdf

English

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-fr.pdf

French

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_0-ru.pdf

Russian

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-es.pdf

Spanish

basel_ban_amendment_guide_croatian.pdf

Croatian

SAICM

Thought Starter on Beyond 2020 Indicators and Milestones: Chemical Safety Contributions to the SDGs

Sunday, 22 September 2019 - 1:49pm

Document:

thought_starter_on_beyond_2020_indicators_17_sept_2019.pdf

English

Basel Convention

BAN Press Release: Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law

Monday, 09 September 2019

Update: View IPEN & BAN guide to the Basel Ban Amendment

Ratification by Croatia Seals Entry into Force of Basel Ban Amendment

Seattle, Washington, USA. Croatia's 6th of September deposit of ratification of the 1995 Basel Ban Amendment has allowed this global waste dumping prohibition to finally enter into the force of international law. The Ban Amendment, adopted by the parties to the Basel Convention in 1995, prohibits the export of hazardous wastes from member states of the European Union, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Liechtenstein to all other countries.

Illegal Traffic

Trading Away Health and the Environment- a new EARTH report

Monday, 01 July 2019

Co-Authors: Tanya Lee Roberts-Davis & Penchom Saetang

Electronic Waste

MPs to probe UK’s growing e-waste problem

Thursday, 27 June 2019

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252465865/MPs-to-probe-UKs-growing-e-waste-problem

The parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into electronic waste and the circular economy

Alex Scroxton
Networking Editor

E-Waste

ASEAN leaders welcomed by "mountain of trash" and calls to ban plastic and e-waste imports

Thursday, 20 June 2019

https://www.facebook.com/EarthEcoAlertEn/photos/a.535525156632036/111498...

Bangkok - A mountain of plastic and electronic waste appeared on the streets of central Bangkok today as delegates from the 10 member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) arrived in the Thai capital for the start of the 34th ASEAN summit.

E-Waste

Rotten eggs: e-waste from Europe poisons Ghana's food chain

The Guardian

Thursday, 02 May 2019

Toxins from old computers, fridges and other electronic goods are polluting chicken eggs in an area where 80,000 people live.

Some of the most hazardous chemicals on Earth are entering the food chain in Ghana from illegally disposed electronic waste coming from Europe.

Dioxin

"Egg Action" flyer

Thursday, 2 May 2019 - 7:26am

Document:

egg_action_info.pdf

English

Basel COP14

IPEN Press release: UN meeting gives countries the right to refuse unrecyclable, polluting plastics

10 May, 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: Governments at the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the Basel Convention acted to restrict rampant plastic waste exports by requiring countries to obtain prior informed consent before exporting contaminated or mixed plastic waste.

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EU Withdraws its Toxic Recycling Exemption

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-en.pdf

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-fr.pdf

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_0-ru.pdf

ban-basel-fact-sheet-v2_1-es.pdf

basel_ban_amendment_guide_croatian.pdf

Thought Starter on Beyond 2020 Indicators and Milestones: Chemical Safety Contributions to the SDGs

thought_starter_on_beyond_2020_indicators_17_sept_2019.pdf

BAN Press Release: Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law

Trading Away Health and the Environment- a new EARTH report

MPs to probe UK’s growing e-waste problem

ASEAN leaders welcomed by "mountain of trash" and calls to ban plastic and e-waste imports

Rotten eggs: e-waste from Europe poisons Ghana's food chain

"Egg Action" flyer

egg_action_info.pdf

Basel COP14

IPEN Press release: UN meeting gives countries the right to refuse unrecyclable, polluting plastics

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